Breakdown of Lippu pieneen kylään maksaa kaksikymmentäneljä euroa.
pieni
small
maksaa
to cost
lippu
ticket
neljä
four
euro
euro
kaksikymmentä
twenty
kylä
village
Questions & Answers about Lippu pieneen kylään maksaa kaksikymmentäneljä euroa.
How do you break down the long word kaksikymmentäneljä?
It literally translates to 'two tens four'. It is made of kaksi (two), kymmentä (the partitive form of ten), and neljä (four). In Finnish, compound numbers like this are always written together as one single word.
Why does the word euro have an -a at the end?
Because it comes after a number. In Finnish, any number greater than 1 requires the following noun to be in the partitive case. So while one euro is yksi euro, 24 euros becomes kaksikymmentäneljä euroa.
Why is the phrase 'to the small village' translated as pieneen kylään?
This uses the illative case, which expresses movement to or into a place. For kylä (village), we add a matching vowel and an 'n' to make kylään. The adjective pieni (small) must match the noun's case, so its stem piene- takes the -en ending to become pieneen.
Doesn't the verb maksaa usually mean 'to pay'?
Yes, it does! The verb maksaa means both 'to pay' and 'to cost'. You rely on context to tell them apart. Here, since the subject is an inanimate ticket (lippu), it clearly means 'costs'.
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