Breakdown of Tämä paikallinen käsityö maksoi kaksikymmentä euroa.
tämä
this
maksaa
to cost
euro
euro
kaksikymmentä
twenty
Questions & Answers about Tämä paikallinen käsityö maksoi kaksikymmentä euroa.
Why is the past tense of maksaa formed as maksoi instead of maksai?
Maksaa (to cost or to pay) is a Type 1 verb ending in -aa. When forming the past tense, we add the past tense marker -i to the stem. However, Finnish does not allow the vowel combination ai at the end of these verbs, so the final a of the stem (maksa-) mutates into an o. That is why maksa plus i becomes maksoi.
I learned before that maksaa means to pay. How do I know it means to cost here?
You can tell by looking at the subject of the sentence. If the subject is a person, maksaa usually means to pay, such as Minä maksoin (I paid). When the subject is an inanimate item like käsityö (handicraft), it means to cost.
Why is euroa in the partitive case?
Is käsityö a compound word?