Questions & Answers about Mikä auto on kallis?
What does Mikä auto on kallis? mean literally?
It literally means Which car is expensive?
Why do we use mikä instead of mitä in this question?
mikä is the interrogative pronoun used when you select one item out of a group in the nominative. mitä is the partitive form of mikä and is used with certain verbs or when you ask “what” in an indefinite sense. Since you want to know which specific car is expensive, you use mikä in the nominative.
What part of speech is mikä?
mikä is an interrogative pronoun (a question word) that asks about identity or classification.
What case and number are auto and kallis in?
Both auto and kallis are in the nominative singular. auto is the subject and kallis is the predicate adjective linked by the verb on.
Why are there no words for “a” or “the” in the sentence?
Finnish has no articles. Whether something is definite or indefinite is inferred from context, not marked by a separate word.