Questions & Answers about Suunnitelma on selkeä ja johdonmukainen.
What is the basic grammar of Suunnitelma on selkeä ja johdonmukainen?
It breaks down like this:
- suunnitelma = the subject of the sentence, plan
- on = is
- selkeä = clear
- ja = and
- johdonmukainen = consistent / coherent / logical
So grammatically, this is:
subject + verb + predicate adjectives
A very literal structure is:
Plan is clear and coherent.
Why is there no word for the or a?
Finnish does not have articles like English a/an and the.
So suunnitelma can mean:
- a plan
- the plan
Which one is meant depends on context.
That is completely normal in Finnish. Learners often want to add something like the, but Finnish simply does not work that way.
Why is the verb on used here?