Breakdown of Tää kämppä on vihdoin vapaa.
olla
to be
vihdoin
finally
tää
this (spoken)
kämppä
apartment / place (living space)
Questions & Answers about Tää kämppä on vihdoin vapaa.
Is tää the spoken form of tämä?
Yes, tää is the very common spoken Finnish (puhekieli) version of tämä (this). In everyday speech, you will hear tää much more often than the standard written form.
Why use the word kämppä instead of asunto?
Kämppä is a colloquial word for an apartment or a pad. Since the sentence starts with the spoken pronoun tää, using the spoken vocabulary word kämppä makes the register consistent and natural. In formal written Finnish, this would be Tämä asunto...
Why is the adjective vapaa in the nominative case instead of the partitive (vapaata)?
Because kämppä (apartment) is a countable, individual noun. When describing a whole, countable subject in Finnish, the describing adjective takes the basic nominative case. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun, we would use the partitive.
Could I use vihdoinkin instead of vihdoin here?
Yes! Adding the -kin suffix to make vihdoinkin adds emotional emphasis, meaning something closer to 'at long last!' Both are perfectly natural here, but vihdoinkin expresses a stronger sense of relief that the wait is over.