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Questions & Answers about Ihme tapahtui eilen.
What case is ihme in?
Ihme is in the nominative singular, which is the basic dictionary form. In this sentence, it is the subject: it is the thing that happened.
What form is tapahtui?
Tapahtui is the third-person singular past tense form of tapahtua. So grammatically, it means happened.
A useful comparison is:
- infinitive: tapahtua
- present: tapahtuu
- past: tapahtui
Why is there no word for a or the before ihme?
Finnish does not have articles. So ihme can mean a miracle or the miracle, depending on context. You do not add a separate word for articles the way English does.
What kind of word is eilen?
Eilen is an adverb of time. It tells you when the event happened. It does not agree with the verb or noun, and it does not function as a subject or object.
Is the word order fixed?