Questions & Answers about Kuka lentää tänne huomenna?
How do I change this sentence to say "Who is NOT flying here tomorrow?"
Since kuka (who) acts as a third-person singular subject (he/she), you use the negative verb ei. For the main verb, this lesson teaches us to use the weak connegative stem. The verb is lentää (Type 1). The strong nt changes to a weak nn, giving the stem lennä. The negative sentence is: Kuka ei lennä tänne huomenna?
Why does lentää have a double ä at the end?
The third-person singular (he/she/it) form of Type 1 verbs is made by lengthening the final vowel of the stem. The stem ends in ä, so we double it. The word kuka (who) is always treated as a third-person singular subject, so it takes this form. Note that the dictionary form (infinitive) is also lentää, so they happen to look exactly the same!
Why is "here" translated as tänne instead of täällä?
Finnish uses different words for "here" depending on whether there is movement. You use täällä when something is stationary in a location (like "I am here"). You use tänne when there is movement towards this place (like "flying to here").
Is huomenna in a specific grammatical case?
Yes, it is in the essive case, which is often used to express days or times when something happens. However, at the A1 level, you do not need to worry about forming this case yet. It is much easier to just memorize huomenna as a fixed vocabulary word meaning "tomorrow".
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