Breakdown of Sinulla ei ole aikaa.
olla
to be
sinä
you
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
aika
time (concept, duration)
Questions & Answers about Sinulla ei ole aikaa.
Why do we use sinulla instead of sinä for "you"?
Finnish doesn't have a verb for "to have". Instead, you express possession by adding the ending -lla or -llä to the person, which literally means "on" someone. So, the sentence roughly translates to "on you there is not time".
If the sentence is about "you", why is the verb ei ole instead of et ole?
Why is there an extra -a at the end of the word for time (aikaa)?
Aika is in the partitive case here. Whenever you say you do not have something in Finnish, the thing you lack must be put into the partitive case.