Word
Tyttöystävä ei enää katso minua.
Meaning
The girlfriend is no longer looking at me.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tyttöystävä ei enää katso minua.
minä
I
ei
no / not (negative verb)
enää
anymore
katsoa
to watch
Questions & Answers about Tyttöystävä ei enää katso minua.
Why do we use the partitive form minua here instead of minä?
Why is the verb katso missing a letter? Shouldn't it be katsoo for the third person?
In a positive sentence, it would be katsoo (she looks). However, in negative sentences, the negative verb ei does the heavy lifting, and the main verb gets stripped down to its basic stem form, which is just katso.
How do the words ei enää work together in this sentence?
The word enää means anymore. When you pair it with the negative verb ei (not), you get ei enää, which translates naturally to not anymore or no longer.
Is tyttöystävä a compound word?
Yes! It is made by directly combining tyttö (girl) and ystävä (friend). Finnish loves compound words and almost always writes them seamlessly as one single word.