Questions & Answers about Puisto on talvella kaunis.
Why does talvella have the -lla ending if it means "in the winter"?
The ending -lla usually means "on" or "at", but Finnish also uses it with seasons and parts of the day to mean "in" or "during". So the basic word talvi (winter) becomes talvella (in the winter).
Why did the word talvi change to talve- before the ending?
Many older Finnish words that end in -i change that -i to an -e- before you add an ending. This gives us the stem talve-, and then we add the -lla ending.
Is it okay to put talvella at the end of the sentence?
Yes! Finnish word order is very flexible. Putting the time word talvella in the middle of the sentence is very natural, but saying Puisto on kaunis talvella is also perfectly correct and means the exact same thing.
Why is kaunis in its basic form instead of the partitive case (kaunista)?
Because the subject, puisto (park), is a single, countable thing. When describing a whole, countable noun, the adjective stays in its basic form. You would use the partitive case (like kaunista) if you were describing an uncountable word, such as water or weather.
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