Breakdown of Lääkäri ei ole enää sairas.
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
sairas
sick
lääkäri
doctor
enää
anymore
Questions & Answers about Lääkäri ei ole enää sairas.
Why do we use ole instead of on after the negative verb ei?
In Finnish, you can't put a normal conjugated verb (like on) after a negative verb. Instead, you must use the negative stem. Even though olla (to be) is a Type 3 verb, you can find its negative stem using the exact same trick you just learned for Verb Type 1: take the minä form (olen) and drop the -n. That gives us ole.
How does the word enää work in this sentence?
The word enää translates to 'anymore' or 'any longer', and it is almost exclusively used in negative sentences. It typically comes directly after the verb structure, which is why it sits right after ei ole here.
Why is there no word for 'the' in front of lääkäri?
Finnish does not have articles like 'a' or 'the'. The word lääkäri alone means 'the doctor' or 'a doctor'. We can usually tell which one is meant from the context, and putting the noun at the beginning of the sentence usually translates into English with 'the'.
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