Breakdown of Mä en oo koskaan ollu kateellinen.
olla
to be
minä
I
ei
no / not (negative verb)
koskaan
never / ever
kateellinen
jealous
Questions & Answers about Mä en oo koskaan ollu kateellinen.
Why is the word for "been" spelled ollu instead of ollut?
In colloquial Finnish (puhekieli), the final -t of active past participles is usually dropped. So the standard ollut simply becomes ollu.
Is oo a shortened form of a verb?
Yes, oo is the spoken form of ole (from the verb olla). Combined with the negative verb en, en oo is the common spoken way to say en ole.
How does the negative perfect tense in this spoken sentence compare to standard written Finnish?
The standard written form is Minä en ole koskaan ollut. The spoken version shrinks minä to mä, ole to oo, and drops the final -t from ollut to make ollu.
Why isn't kateellinen in the partitive case, since the sentence is negative?
When using the verb olla (to be) to describe a specific person or thing, the adjective usually stays in the basic nominative case (kateellinen), even if the sentence is negative. You would typically only use the partitive for adjectives if you were describing an uncountable mass noun.
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