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Questions & Answers about Viikko on kaunis.
What does viikko mean in English?
Viikko translates to week. It is the subject of the sentence.
What role does the word on play in this sentence?
On is the third-person singular form of the verb olla, which means to be. It functions as the linking verb that connects the subject (viikko) to its predicate adjective (kaunis).
Why is the adjective kaunis not inflected with any case ending?
In Finnish, when an adjective is used as a predicate complement following a linking verb, it remains in its base (nominative) form. This is why kaunis does not take any additional endings in the sentence.
How does the sentence structure of Viikko on kaunis compare to a similar sentence in English?
The structure is very similar. Both Finnish and English use a subject–verb–predicate adjective order. In this case, viikko (week) is the subject, on (is) is the verb, and kaunis (beautiful) serves as the predicate adjective.
Why isn’t there an article before viikko?
Finnish does not have articles (like a or the). Therefore, nouns such as viikko are used without an article, unlike in English where articles are common.