Breakdown of Kitaristi soitti suosikkini aivan lopussa.
soittaa
to play
suosikki
the favorite
lopussa
at the end
aivan
absolutely
Questions & Answers about Kitaristi soitti suosikkini aivan lopussa.
How is this sentence put together grammatically?
A simple breakdown is:
- Kitaristi = subject
- soitti = verb
- suosikkini = object
- aivan lopussa = adverbial phrase telling when in the sequence
So the structure is basically:
subject + verb + object + time/position phrase
That is a very natural Finnish sentence pattern.
Why is there no word for the or a before kitaristi?
Finnish does not have articles like English a/an and the.
So kitaristi can mean:
- a guitarist
- the guitarist
Context tells you which one is meant. In this sentence, English would often use the guitarist, but Finnish just says kitaristi.
What exactly is soitti?