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Se nukkuu mun luona.

Se nukkuu mun luona.
He is sleeping at my place.
From Lesson 157:Spoken pronouns for people (se, ne)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Se nukkuu mun luona.

Why does the sentence use se for "he" instead of hän?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), people almost always use se (which means "it" in written Finnish) to refer to a person instead of hän (he/she).
Why do we use mun here instead of the basic word for "I"?
mun is the common spoken version of minun (my). The word luona is a postposition, and the word coming right before a postposition almost always needs to be in the genitive case. That is why we use mun instead of the basic pronoun mä (I).
Does luona always mean "at someone's place"?
When used with a person, luona translates perfectly to "at [person]'s place" or "with [person]". For example, if you are staying at your friend Matti's house, you use his name in the genitive plus luona, forming Matin luona.
How do you know it means "is sleeping" and not just "sleeps"?
Finnish does not have a specific continuous tense like English does. The simple present tense nukkuu covers both "sleeps" as a habit and "is sleeping" right now. You just rely on the context of the conversation to know which one makes sense.

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