Breakdown of Kerroksessa on kaksikymmentäkuusi huonetta.
olla
to be
huone
room
kuusi
six
kaksikymmentä
twenty
kerros
floor (level of a building)
Questions & Answers about Kerroksessa on kaksikymmentäkuusi huonetta.
Why doesn't this sentence have a word for "there"?
Since there are 26 rooms, why is the verb the singular on (is) instead of the plural ovat (are)?
In Finnish "there is / there are" sentences, the verb is always the singular on, no matter how many things you are talking about.
The dictionary word for "floor" or "storey" is kerros. How does it become kerroksessa?
Finnish words often change their core shape (the stem) before adding an ending like -ssa (in/on). For many words ending in -s, that final -s changes to -kse-. So, kerros becomes the stem kerrokse- before adding -ssa.
Why is the word for room huonetta instead of the basic form huone?
In Finnish, any number greater than one must be followed by a special grammatical form called the partitive case. Because we have 26 rooms, huone must be in its partitive form, which is huonetta.
How do you form the partitive for a word like huone?
Words that end in -e in their basic dictionary form follow a very regular rule: they take the -tta or -ttä ending to form the partitive. So huone simply adds -tta to become huonetta.
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