Questions & Answers about Hän laulaa joka maanantai.
The lesson is about adding -na to days of the week to say "on Monday", so why isn't it maanantaina here?
Because of the word joka (every). When you say you do something every day of the week, you use joka followed by the basic dictionary form of the day. So "on Monday" is maanantaina, but "every Monday" is just joka maanantai.
Does hän mean "he" or "she"?
Hän means both! Finnish doesn't have separate gendered pronouns for "he" and "she". You have to figure out which one it is from the wider context. Here we translated it as "he", but "she sings" would also be a perfect translation.
Why does laulaa have two A's at the end?
When a verb goes with hän (he/she) or se (it), you often double the last vowel of the verb's stem. The stem here is laula-, so doubling the last vowel gives us laulaa (he/she sings).
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