Kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu.

In Finnish, the verb ending already shows the subject.

• kävelen = I walk
• the ending -n marks 1st person singular (I)

So minä is often left out unless you want extra emphasis or contrast.

• Kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu. = neutral, natural
• Minä kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu. = I walk past the park every morning (with emphasis on I)

Kävelen is the present tense, 1st person singular form of the verb kävellä (to walk).

A simple breakdown:

• dictionary form: kävellä
• verb stem used here: kävele-
• personal ending: -n = I

So:

• kävelen = I walk
• depending on context, it can also mean I am walking, since Finnish present tense can cover both simple present and present continuous meanings.

Because ohi is usually a postposition here, and it requires the noun before it to be in the genitive.

• puisto = park
• puiston = of the park / the park’s (genitive form)

So:

• puiston ohi = past the park

This is a very common Finnish pattern with postpositions:

• talon takana = behind the house
• joen yli = over the river
• puiston ohi = past the park

Even though the English translation just says past the park, Finnish expresses that relationship with genitive + postposition.

Ohi means something like past, by, or beyond, especially when moving past something.

In this sentence:

• puiston ohi = past the park

It is functioning as a postposition, which means it comes after the noun phrase instead of before it.

That is an important difference from English:

• English: past the park
• Finnish: the park + past → puiston ohi

No. Puiston is not the object here.

The verb kävellä does not take puiston as its object in this sentence. Instead, puiston ohi is a postpositional phrase telling you where the walking happens in relation to the park.

So the structure is more like:

• kävelen = I walk
• puiston ohi = past the park
• joka aamu = every morning

A useful way to think of it is:

• not I walk the park
• but I walk past the park

Joka aamu literally means every morning or each morning.

• joka = every / each
• aamu = morning

So:

• joka aamu = every morning

This is a very common Finnish time expression. Similar examples:

• joka päivä = every day
• joka ilta = every evening
• joka viikko = every week

English learners sometimes expect something more complicated here, but this part is actually quite direct.

Because Finnish uses the singular after joka in this kind of expression.

So:

• joka aamu = every morning
• not a plural form like every mornings

This is actually similar to English, which also uses the singular after every:

• every morning
• every day

So this part is quite intuitive for an English speaker.

Not completely. Finnish word order is fairly flexible, and changing it often changes emphasis rather than the basic meaning.

This sentence has a natural neutral order:

• Kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu.

But you could also say:

• Joka aamu kävelen puiston ohi. = emphasizes every morning
• Puiston ohi kävelen joka aamu. = emphasizes past the park

Because Finnish uses case endings and verb endings to show relationships, word order does not have to do as much grammatical work as it does in English.

Still, some orders sound more natural than others depending on context, and Kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu is a very normal sentence.

Usually not in this pattern. In standard Finnish, ohi is normally used after the noun phrase:

• puiston ohi

not:

• ohi puiston in this meaning as the normal basic pattern

That is why it is called a postposition rather than a preposition.

For English speakers, this is one of the key things to get used to: Finnish often puts these relational words after the noun instead of before it.

Finnish does not have articles like a, an, or the.

So Finnish does not mark definiteness in the same way English does. Whether puisto means a park or the park depends on context.

In this sentence, English naturally uses the:

• I walk past the park every morning

But Finnish simply says:

• Kävelen puiston ohi joka aamu.

The language leaves that article idea unspoken.