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Questions
Every sentence can be transformed into question by using -ko-particle (remember the vowel harmony).
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Tarja Halonen on Suomen presidentti. -> Onko Tarja Halonen Suomen presidentti?
Tarja Halonen is President of Finland. -> Is Tarja Halonen President of Finland? Pihalla on auto. -> Onko pihalla auto? There's a car on the yard. - > Is there a car on the yard? |
Note, that you can make various kinds of questions very easily, by adding the particle after the element you inquire after:
| Onko teillä auto? Do you have a car? Teilläkö on auto? Are you the one who has the car? Autoko teillä on? Is it the car what you have? (not e.g bicycle)? |
Because the word order is very free in Finnish, you can put the words in almoust any order (it's the -ko-particel wich tells this is a question, not the word order as in English) but normaly you start with the word wich include the -ko-particle.
You get more questions by using interrogative pronouns.
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Mitä hän syö? Hän syö leipää. What is he/she eating? He/she is eating bread. |
Here you replace the unknown element (the thing you inquire) with a propriate pronoun.
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Mitä hän syö? Kuka syö leipää? |
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- Vowel harmony
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