Questions & Answers about Auton hinta on tuhat euroa.
Why does auto have an -n at the end?
The -n ending is the genitive case, which shows possession. It works exactly like the apostrophe-s ('s) in English. By adding -n, auto (car) becomes auton (the car's).
Does the possessive word always come first like in auton hinta?
Yes, the word in the genitive case almost always comes right before the thing it owns. Just like in English you say 'the car's price', in Finnish you say auton hinta. The word order matches perfectly.
Why is it euroa instead of just euro?
In Finnish, whenever you have a number greater than one, the noun that follows it must be in the partitive case. Because tuhat (a thousand) is more than one, we add the partitive ending -a to euro to make it euroa.
Why isn't there a word for 'one' before tuhat?
The word tuhat on its own means 'one thousand' or 'a thousand'. You do not need to add the word for one (yksi). You only add a number in front if you want to say two thousand (kaksi tuhatta) or more.
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