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Questions & Answers about Tänään on kaunis päivä.
What does Tänään mean in this sentence?
Tänään translates to "today" in English, indicating that the sentence is referring to the current day.
How is the verb on functioning here?
On is the present tense, third person singular form of the verb olla (to be). It acts as the linking verb that connects the time expression with the description of the day.
Why is there no explicit subject pronoun like it present in the sentence?
In Finnish, subject pronouns are often omitted when the subject is clear from context. In this sentence, the noun päivä (day) serves as the subject, making an extra pronoun unnecessary.
How does the adjective kaunis agree with the noun päivä?
Finnish adjectives agree with their nouns in both case and number. Since päivä is in the nominative singular, the adjective kaunis also appears in its basic, uninflected nominative singular form.
Why are there no articles such as a or the in the sentence?
Finnish does not use articles. The noun phrase kaunis päivä stands complete on its own without the need for words to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness.
What does the word order in this sentence indicate about Finnish sentence structure?
Finnish has a more flexible word order compared to English. In Tänään on kaunis päivä, the time adverb (Tänään) is placed at the beginning for emphasis, followed by the verb (on), and finally the subject (kaunis päivä). This order is natural in Finnish and allows speakers to highlight different parts of the sentence according to context.
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