Breakdown of Näkeekö valokuvaaja minut, jos minä seison sinun takanasi?
minä
I
sinä
you
seisoa
to stand
nähdä
to see
minut
me
takana
behind
jos
if
valokuvaaja
the photographer
Questions & Answers about Näkeekö valokuvaaja minut, jos minä seison sinun takanasi?
Why does takana (behind) become takanasi in this sentence?
When a postposition is used with a personal pronoun (like sinun), the postposition must take a possessive suffix. Because the pronoun is the second-person singular sinun, we add the matching suffix -si to the end of takana, creating sinun takanasi.
Could I drop the word sinun and just say jos minä seison takanasi?
Why is the word for "me" minut instead of the partitive form minua?
The verb nähdä (to see) takes a total object here, meaning the action is complete and the photographer sees all of you. Personal pronouns have a special total object form that ends in -t, making minä into minut. If the sentence were negative (like "doesn't see me"), you would use the partitive minua.
How does näkeekö form a question?
To ask a yes/no question, Finnish attaches the ending -ko or -kö to the word you are asking about and moves it to the front of the sentence. The base verb is näkee (sees). Because of vowel harmony with the front vowels ä and e, it takes the front-vowel version -kö.
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