Questions & Answers about Sinä poseeraat minun kanssani, ja hymy on tärkeä.
Why is there a -ni at the end of kanssani?
The word kanssa means "with" and acts as a postposition. When you say "with me", you use the genitive pronoun minun (my) plus the postposition kanssa. In Finnish, you must also add the matching possessive suffix -ni to the end of the postposition. So, "with me" becomes minun kanssani.
Can I drop the word minun and just say Sinä poseeraat kanssani?
Yes! With first and second-person pronouns (I, you, we, you all), the genitive pronoun (like minun) is optional. Saying just kanssani means the exact same thing and is actually more common in everyday spoken Finnish.
What type of verb is poseeraat?
It comes from the verb poseerata (to pose), which is a verb type 4 word. To conjugate it for sinä (you), you drop the -ta to get the stem poseera-, add the required extra -a-, and then attach the personal ending -t.
Why isn't tärkeä in the partitive case?
In the phrase hymy on tärkeä, hymy (a smile) is a countable subject in the basic nominative form. Because this is a simple descriptive sentence, the adjective tärkeä (important) matches the subject and also stays in the basic nominative form.