Word
En halua ajatella työpaikkaa viikonloppuna.
Meaning
I don’t want to think about the workplace on the weekend.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of En halua ajatella työpaikkaa viikonloppuna.
minä
I
haluta
to want
työpaikka
the workplace
viikonloppuna
on the weekend
Questions & Answers about En halua ajatella työpaikkaa viikonloppuna.
Where is the word “I” in this sentence? Why is minä not used?
Finnish usually hides the subject inside the verb, so you normally don’t need a separate pronoun.
- En = the negative verb ei conjugated for I (1st person singular).
- The person also shows up in the main verb form (halua, from haluta “to want”), but you don’t see a separate ending here because of negation (see next question).
So en halua already means “I do not want”.
You can say Minä en halua ajatella työpaikkaa viikonloppuna, but minä then adds emphasis, like “I don’t want to think about work on the weekend (but maybe others do).”
Why is it en halua and not en haluan?