Breakdown of Mun täytyy mennä, mutta mä meen mieluummin kaljalle.
minä
I
mutta
but
mennä
to go
täytyä
to have to
Questions & Answers about Mun täytyy mennä, mutta mä meen mieluummin kaljalle.
Why is the verb written as meen instead of menen?
Meen is the colloquial spoken form (puhekieli) of menen (I go). In everyday spoken Finnish, high-frequency verbs often drop the middle consonant and combine the vowels.
Why does the sentence start with mun instead of mä?
Mun is the spoken form of minun (my). The verb täytyy (have to / must) always requires its subject to be in the genitive case. You can think of it literally as "of me it is necessary to go".
Both mun and mä refer to the speaker here. Are they interchangeable?
Why is "for a beer" translated using the ending -lle in kaljalle?
In Finnish, when you go out to casually consume a drink or a snack, you usually use the allative case (-lle, meaning "onto"). You go "onto beer" (kaljalle), "onto coffee" (kahville), or "onto ice cream" (jäätelölle).