Tyttö menee kouluun aikaisin aamulla.

to go

Breakdown of Tyttö menee kouluun aikaisin aamulla.

• aikaisin: early
• aamu: the morning
• -lla: in

Questions & Answers about Tyttö menee kouluun aikaisin aamulla.

What does each word in Tyttö menee kouluun aikaisin aamulla do?

A word-by-word breakdown:

• tyttö = girl
• menee = goes / is going
• kouluun = to school
• aikaisin = early
• aamulla = in the morning

So the structure is basically:

• Tyttö = subject
• menee = verb
• kouluun = destination
• aikaisin aamulla = time expression

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Why is it kouluun and not koulu?

Because Finnish changes noun endings to show grammatical roles. Here, kouluun is in the illative case, which often means into or to a place.

• koulu = school
• kouluun = to school / into the school

Since the verb mennä means to go, Finnish usually marks the destination with a case ending instead of using a separate preposition like English to.

Examples:

• Menen kotiin = I go home
• Menen kauppaan = I go to the shop
• Tyttö menee kouluun = The girl goes to school

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