Breakdown of Minulla on kolmekymmentä euroa, mutta laukku maksaa sata euroa.
olla
to be
minä
I
mutta
but
laukku
bag
maksaa
to cost
euro
euro
sata
one hundred
kolmekymmentä
thirty
Questions & Answers about Minulla on kolmekymmentä euroa, mutta laukku maksaa sata euroa.
Why does the sentence use minulla on instead of a verb for 'to have'?
Finnish doesn't have a direct verb for 'to have'. Instead, it uses a structure that literally means 'on me is'. Minulla means 'on me' and on means 'is'.
Why is the word for euro written as euroa?
In Finnish, whenever you use a number greater than one, the noun that follows it must be in the partitive case. The partitive form of euro is euroa.
How do you form multiples of ten like kolmekymmentä (thirty)?
Why doesn't sata (a hundred) have the word 'yksi' (one) in front of it?
Finnish doesn't use articles like 'a' or 'an', and for exactly one hundred, you usually just say sata rather than yksi sata. It translates naturally to 'a hundred' or 'one hundred' in English.
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