Breakdown of Jos te perutte tapahtuman, en muuta näitä suunnitelmia.
te
you (plural/formal)
nämä
these
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
jos
if
Questions & Answers about Jos te perutte tapahtuman, en muuta näitä suunnitelmia.
The English translation says "I will not change", but Finnish uses the present tense "en muuta". How do we express the future in a "jos" (if) sentence?
Finnish does not have a separate future tense. In jos sentences, both the condition (jos te perutte) and the result (en muuta) simply use the present tense. The word jos and the logic of the sentence naturally let the listener know you are talking about the future.
Why do the objects in this sentence have different cases ("tapahtuman" vs. "näitä suunnitelmia")?
This sentence is a great reminder of two important object rules! The first part is positive, and cancelling the event is a total, completed action, so tapahtuma takes the genitive -n ending. The second part is negative (en muuta). The object of a negative verb must always be in the partitive case, which is why we use the partitive plural näitä suunnitelmia.
Does "muuta" here mean "other" or "else"?
No, here it is the main verb! It is the present negative form of muuttaa (to change). To make a negative verb, you take the minä form (muutan) and drop the -n. Because of consonant gradation, the strong double tt in the basic form weakens to a single t, giving us en muuta.
Why is the pronoun "minä" missing before "en muuta"?