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Questions & Answers about Näetkö sinä minut?
Why is "me" translated as minut instead of minä or minua?
minut is the accusative form of minä (I). We use the accusative case here because "me" is the direct object of the action, and the action of seeing is complete. Personal pronouns have their own special accusative forms ending in -t.
I learned that objects often take the partitive case. Why isn't it used here?
Verbs like nähdä (to see) take an accusative object when the action is successful and encompasses the whole object—you successfully see all of me! If this were a negative sentence like "You don't see me" (Et näe minua), then you would use the partitive case instead.
Why does the question word näetkö end in -kö instead of -ko?
This is due to vowel harmony. To turn näet (you see) into a yes/no question, we attach a question particle. Because the word näet contains the front vowels ä and e, the ending must also use a front vowel, making it -kö rather than the back-vowel -ko.
Is the word sinä (you) mandatory in this sentence?