Questions & Answers about Maksaako tuo hattu neljäkymmentä euroa?
How does maksaako become a question? Where is the word for 'does'?
Finnish doesn't use helper words like 'do' or 'does' to make questions. Instead, you take the verb, add the question ending -ko (or -kö), and put it at the very beginning of the sentence. Here, maksaa (costs) becomes maksaako (does it cost?).
I thought maksaa meant 'to pay'. Can it mean both?
Yes! Maksaa is a handy verb that means both 'to pay' and 'to cost'. You can usually tell the difference from context. Since a hat (hattu) can't pay for things, it must mean 'cost' in this sentence.
Why is euroa used instead of just euro or eurot?
In Finnish, whenever you have a number greater than one, the noun that follows it must be in the partitive singular case. Because we are talking about forty (neljäkymmentä), the basic word euro changes to its partitive form, euroa.