Breakdown of Minä katson televisiota iltaisin.
Questions & Answers about Minä katson televisiota iltaisin.
Minä means “I” and marks the subject (first person singular). Finnish is a pro-drop language, so you can omit it unless you want emphasis or clarity.
Example without Minä:
Katson televisiota iltaisin.
Both sentences mean “I watch TV in the evenings,” but with Minä you emphasise the “I.”
Iltaisin means “in the evenings” or “evenings (habitually).” It is an adverb formed from the noun ilta (“evening”) plus the recurring-time suffix -sin, which creates time-of-day expressions indicating habitual action:
• aamu (“morning”) → aamuisin (“in the mornings”)
• ilta (“evening”) → iltaisin (“in the evenings”)
Katson is the present tense, first person singular form of the verb katsoa (“to watch”). The pattern is:
Root: katso-
1st singular ending: -n → katson
Other persons in present:
• sinä katsot
• hän katsoo
• me katsomme, etc.
Yes. Finnish word order is flexible. The basic order is Subject–Verb–Object, but you can move adverbs for emphasis:
• Iltaisin katson televisiota. (Emphasises “in the evenings.”)
• Televisiota katson iltaisin. (Emphasises “TV” as the object.)
The meaning stays the same, though subtle emphasis shifts.