Breakdown of Me emme ole vielä kotona.
olla
to be
me
we
kotona
at home
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
Questions & Answers about Me emme ole vielä kotona.
How does emme ole translate to "we are not"?
In Finnish, the word for "not" is actually a verb. To say "we are not", you use the "we" form of the negative verb (emme) followed by the connegative form of the verb "to be" (ole). The connegative is simply a special form of the verb used in negative sentences. The negative verb changes to match who is doing the action, but ole stays exactly the same.
Could I drop the word me from this sentence?
Yes, you can just say Emme ole vielä kotona. Because emme specifically means "we are not" or "we do not", the pronoun me (we) is completely optional and is often dropped in everyday Finnish.
Why is the word for "at home" kotona instead of just koti?
Koti is the basic noun for "home". To say you are at a location, Finnish usually adds an ending like -ssa (in) or -lla (at/on). However, "at home" is an important exception that uses an older location ending (-na), making it kotona.
Why isn't the word vielä (yet) at the end of the sentence like in English?
Adverbs like vielä (which means "yet" or "still") generally sit as close to the verb as possible in Finnish. Since emme ole acts as a single verb block, vielä tucks in right after it, rather than waiting for the very end of the sentence.