Questions & Answers about Koulu loppuu viidentenä kesäkuuta.
How does the word viisi (five) become viidentenä?
First, we take the basic number viisi (five) and turn it into the ordinal number viides (fifth). To say that something happens on a certain day, Finnish uses the essive case ending -nä. The word stem for viides is viidente-, so adding the ending gives us viidentenä (on the fifth).
Why is kesäkuuta in the partitive case?
When expressing a date, the month is always put in the partitive case. Even though in English we say "of June," Finnish uses the partitive ending -ta here. You can think of it as meaning "the fifth day out of June."
Why does the sentence use loppuu instead of lopettaa for "ends"?
Finnish has two verbs for "to end" or "to finish." Lopettaa means that someone actively stops or finishes something (like someone finishing their homework). Loppua means that something ends on its own (like a movie, a school year, or a supply of milk). Because the school year is ending by itself, we use loppuu.
Why isn't the month kesäkuuta capitalized?
Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are not capitalized in Finnish unless they happen to be the very first word of the sentence.
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