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Questions & Answers about Lasite on sininen.
What is the grammatical role of each word in Lasite on sininen?
- Lasite is the subject.
- on is the 3rd person singular present tense of olla, meaning to be.
- sininen is a predicate adjective: it tells you what the subject is like.
So the basic pattern is:
subject + on + adjective
That is a very common Finnish sentence type.
Why is on used here?
On is the Finnish word for is in this kind of sentence.
It comes from the verb olla (to be).
A few forms of olla are:
- olen = I am
- olet = you are
- on = he/she/it is
- olemme = we are
- olette = you are
- ovat = they are
Since lasite is singular, Finnish uses on.
Why is there no word for the or a?