Word
Minulla ei ole autoa lauantaina.
Meaning
I do not have a car on Saturday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Minulla ei ole autoa lauantaina.
Why does lauantai have -na at the end here?
The -na ending is used to express 'on a certain day' (this is called the essive case). So, lauantai means 'Saturday', but lauantaina means 'on Saturday'.
Will the ending for days of the week always be -na, or does it change to -nä?
Because of vowel harmony, this grammatical ending is normally either -na or -nä. However, since every day of the week in Finnish ends in -tai (which contains the back vowel a), they all take the back vowel ending. So for weekdays, it will always be -na!
Why is the word for car autoa instead of just auto?
Because this is a negative sentence. When you say you do not have something (Minulla ei ole...), the thing you do not have must take the partitive case. We add an -a to auto to make it autoa.