Questions & Answers about Minulla on kaksi.
Why doesn't the sentence use minä for "I"?
Finnish doesn't have a verb that means "to have". Instead, it expresses ownership by saying "at someone is". Minulla is the "at" form of minä, so minulla on literally means "at me is".
Since "two" is more than one, why does the sentence use the singular verb on instead of the plural ovat?
In Finnish "have" structures, the verb is always the singular on. It doesn't matter how many things you have! You will always say minulla on, whether you have one thing, two things, or ten things.
Is kaksi the basic dictionary form of the number two?
Yes! When you state how many of something you have without naming the object itself (just saying "I have two"), you use the basic, original form of the number, like kaksi here.
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