Questions & Answers about Koira pelkää ilotulitusta.
Finnish has no articles (a/an/the) at all.
- Koira can mean a dog or the dog, depending on context.
- In this sentence, Koira pelkää ilotulitusta, you choose a or the in English based on what makes sense in the situation, not because Finnish marks it.
So koira is just the basic noun dog in the nominative case, and definiteness is understood from context.
Yes.
- The basic dictionary form (infinitive) is pelätä = to fear / to be afraid of.
- pelkää is 3rd person singular, present tense: (he/she/it) fears or is afraid of.
Conjugation pattern (present tense):
- minä pelkään – I fear
- sinä pelkäät – you fear
- hän pelkää – he/she/it fears
- me pelkäämme – we fear
- te pelkäätte – you (pl) fear
- he pelkäävät – they fear
So Koira pelkää = The dog fears / is afraid.
Ilotulitusta is in the partitive case; is the (dictionary form).