Breakdown of Ne tulee meidän kanssa bileisiin.
me
we
ne
they / those (non-human) / they (of people)
tulla
to come
kanssa
with
bileet
party (colloquial)
Questions & Answers about Ne tulee meidän kanssa bileisiin.
Why is the verb tulee singular when the subject Ne (they) is plural?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), the third-person plural pronoun he is replaced by ne (literally "those"), and it takes the third-person singular verb form. So instead of the standard written form He tulevat, you will almost always hear Ne tulee.
I learned that tulen shortens to tuun. Does tulee also get shortened?
No, tulee doesn't contract. In spoken Finnish, the first and second person forms shorten (tuun, tuut), but the third person form stays exactly the same as in written Finnish: tulee.
The base word for party is bileet. Why is the ending -siin here?
Bileet is a plural word. To say "to the party", you need the plural "into" case (illative plural). For words ending in -eet, the illative plural is formed by changing the -t to -isiin, making it bileisiin.
Could I shorten meidän kanssa to fit the spoken style of this sentence?
Yes! In strong spoken Finnish, meidän often becomes meijän and kanssa can shorten to kaa. So you might hear: Ne tulee meijän kaa bileisiin. Remember that postpositions like kanssa or kaa always require the genitive case (meidän/meijän).
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