Questions & Answers about Tänään on aurinkoinen päivä.
Since we are learning cases for times of year, does tänään have a special time ending too?
Yes! You can just memorize tänään as the fixed word for today, but it actually comes from the word tämä (this) plus an old case ending. Just like we use special endings to say in summer, the end of tänään originally meant on this.
I know aurinko means sun. How does the ending work in aurinkoinen?
The suffix -inen is a very common way to turn a noun into an adjective in Finnish. By adding it to the noun aurinko (sun), you get the adjective aurinkoinen (sunny).
We have been learning to add endings to time words. Why is aurinkoinen päivä in its basic form here?
Because we are just describing what today is. We are simply stating that today is a sunny day. If we wanted to say that an event happens on a sunny day, then we would need to add time case endings, making it aurinkoisena päivänä.
Why is there no word for a or an before aurinkoinen päivä?
Finnish does not have articles like a, an, or the. The phrase aurinkoinen päivä simply translates to a sunny day based on the context of this sentence.
Learn Tänään on aurinkoinen päivä and more in Finnish
All course content and exercises are completely free — no paywalls, no trial periods, no signup needed.
- ✓ Practice with interactive exercises
- ✓ Track your progress with spaced repetition
- ✓Learn at your own pace — completely free