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Questions & Answers about Hän kiitti lääkäriä.
What does each word in Hän kiitti lääkäriä do?
- Hän = he or she
- kiitti = thanked
- lääkäriä = doctor in the partitive singular
So the structure is basically:
subject + verb + object
A more grammatical gloss would be:
Hän = subject
kiitti = past-tense verb
lääkäriä = object of the verb
Does hän mean he or she?
It can mean either he or she. Standard Finnish does not normally distinguish gender in third-person singular pronouns the way English does.
So:
- Hän kiitti lääkäriä can mean He thanked the doctor
- or She thanked the doctor
You only know which one is meant from context.
What tense is kiitti?