Breakdown of Suihkumme on uusi, ja huonekalumme ovat olohuoneessa.
olla
to be
ja
and
uusi
new
olohuone
the living room
suihku
the shower
huonekalu
the piece of furniture
Questions & Answers about Suihkumme on uusi, ja huonekalumme ovat olohuoneessa.
How can we tell that huonekalumme is plural if there is no plural -t at the end?
When you add a possessive suffix like -mme to a word in its basic plural form, the plural marker -t drops out. This means huonekalumme looks exactly the same whether it means 'our piece of furniture' (singular) or 'our furniture' (plural). We know it is plural here because the verb ovat (are) is in the plural form.
Why is there no word for 'our' before suihkumme?
In standard written Finnish, the pronoun meidän (our) is often left out because the possessive suffix -mme attached to the noun already tells us who owns it. You could say meidän suihkumme, but just suihkumme is perfectly correct and very common.
If we wanted to say 'Our showers are new', how would the sentence change?
It would become Suihkumme ovat uudet. Because the plural -t disappears before the -mme suffix, the word suihkumme looks exactly the same for both singular and plural! However, the verb changes to the plural ovat, and the adjective uusi changes to its plural form uudet.
What makes up the word olohuoneessa?
It is a compound word made of olo (being or staying) and huone (room), which together mean 'living room'. The ending -ssa means 'in', so the whole word means 'in the living room'.
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