Breakdown of Minä tarkistan portaikon valot huomenna.
Questions & Answers about Minä tarkistan portaikon valot huomenna.
Minä is the 1st person singular pronoun (“I”). In Finnish the verb ending -n in tarkistan already tells you the subject is “I,” so you can omit Minä entirely. It’s included here for emphasis or clarity. A neutral version is:
Tarkistan portaikon valot huomenna.
Yes. Finnish word order is flexible. Putting the time adverb first emphasizes it slightly more:
Huomenna tarkistan portaikon valot.
Absolutely. In everyday speech you’d most often hear:
Tarkistan portaikon valot huomenna.
The verb ending -n already marks the subject as “I.”
Yes. Spoken Finnish often uses mä instead of minä. You might hear:
Mä tarkistan portaikon valot huomenna.
You’d use the partitive plural valoja instead of nominative valot:
Tarkistan portaikon valoja huomenna.
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