Breakdown of Hän saisi kaksi miljoonaa euroa ja uuden huvilan.
hän
he / she
ja
and
uusi
new
kaksi
two
euro
euro
saada
to get
miljoona
million
huvila
the villa
Questions & Answers about Hän saisi kaksi miljoonaa euroa ja uuden huvilan.
How do we form the conditional saisi from the verb saada?
The base verb is saada (to get). To form the conditional ('would get'), we use the stem saa-. When adding the conditional marker -isi-, we drop the final vowel of the stem to avoid having three vowels in a row. This gives us saisi. For the third-person singular (hän), we do not add any extra personal ending here.
Why are both miljoonaa and euroa in the partitive case?
In Finnish, a number greater than one makes the following noun partitive singular. The number kaksi (two) forces the word miljoona into the partitive miljoonaa. Then, miljoonaa acts as a quantity word itself, which forces the next noun euro into the partitive euroa.
If the verb saada usually takes a total object ending in -n, why does the money phrase not have that ending?
The money phrase is an object, but the grammar rules for numbers take priority here. The head of the phrase is the number kaksi, which appears in its basic form when it acts as an object. For uuden huvilan (a new villa), there is no number overriding the object rule, so both the adjective and the noun take the standard total object ending -n.
Could hän saisi also mean 'he might get' or 'he could get'?
No, hän saisi specifically means 'he would get'. The conditional marker -isi- directly adds the meaning of 'would'. To say 'he could get', you would need the conditional form of the verb voida (to be able to) followed by the basic form of saada, which becomes hän voisi saada.
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