Breakdown of Myymälä on vanhassa talossa, josta löydät laadukasta teetä.
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to be
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house
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tea
Questions & Answers about Myymälä on vanhassa talossa, josta löydät laadukasta teetä.
Why does the relative pronoun joka take the elative form josta (from which) when the English translation says "where"?
This is because of the verb löytää (to find). In Finnish, you don't find something inside a place, you find it from a place. Therefore, löytää always forces the location into the elative case (-sta/-stä). Since the relative pronoun is acting as the location for the finding, it must be josta.
The building is in the inessive case (talossa), so why isn't the relative pronoun in the same case (jossa)?
A relative pronoun always gets its case from its role in its own part of the sentence, not from the noun it refers back to! The first half of the sentence describes where the shop is, so it uses talossa (in the building). The second half describes where you find tea, which requires the "from" case, so the pronoun becomes josta.
Why do both vanha and talo end in -ssa?
Why is the tea described as laadukasta teetä instead of ?