Breakdown of Minä soitan huomenna asiakkaalle.
minä
I
huomenna
tomorrow
soittaa
to call
asiakas
the customer
Questions & Answers about Minä soitan huomenna asiakkaalle.
Why does the word for customer have the -lle ending here?
The verb soittaa (to call) requires the person you are calling to be in the allative case, which ends in -lle. Think of it as making a call 'to' someone.
The basic word for customer is asiakas. Why does it change to asiakkaa- before adding the -lle ending?
In Finnish, words ending in -as or -äs go through a specific stem change when you add an ending. You drop the final s and double the vowel before it. So, asiakas becomes the stem asiakkaa-, and then you add -lle to get asiakkaalle.
The English translation says 'I will call', but soitan is just the present tense. How does Finnish show the future here?
Finnish does not have a separate future tense. You simply use the present tense verb soitan (I call) along with a time word like huomenna (tomorrow). The time word tells us the action will happen in the future.
If I want to ask 'Who will you call tomorrow?', how would I use the new question word kenelle?
You would ask, Kenelle sinä soitat huomenna? Because the verb soittaa requires the -lle ending for the person receiving the call, the basic question word kuka (who) must also take the -lle form, becoming kenelle (to whom).
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