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Questions & Answers about Mihin sinä menet?
Why is "where" translated as mihin instead of missä here?
In Finnish, question words must match the type of movement happening in the sentence. Missä means "where at" and is used when you are staying in one place. Because this sentence uses the verb mennä (to go), there is movement towards a destination. Therefore, you must use mihin, which literally means "where to".
How do we get menet from the dictionary form of the verb?
The dictionary form is mennä (to go). This is a Type 3 verb. To conjugate it, you remove the ending -nä to find the verb stem, which is mene-. Then, you add the personal ending for "you", which is -t, giving us menet.
Do I always need to include the word sinä in a sentence like this?
No, you can easily just say Mihin menet?. Because the -t ending on the verb already makes it completely clear that "you" are the one doing the action, the pronoun sinä is optional and is very often dropped in spoken Finnish.