Breakdown of Reissu maaseudulle huvittais niitä.
he
they
huvittaa
to appeal
maaseutu
countryside
reissu
trip (informal)
Questions & Answers about Reissu maaseudulle huvittais niitä.
Why is the verb written as huvittais instead of huvittaisi?
This is the colloquial conditional taught in this lesson. The standard form is huvittaisi (would appeal). In spoken Finnish, the final -i of the conditional marker -isi is often dropped, leaving just -is.
Why is huvittaa used here for 'appeal to'? Doesn't it mean 'to amuse'?
While huvittaa can mean 'to amuse', Finns use it very often to express that something appeals to someone, or that they feel like doing it. The appealing thing (reissu) is the grammatical subject, and the person experiencing the feeling is the object in the partitive case (niitä).
Why does the sentence use niitä for 'them' instead of heitä?
In standard written Finnish, you would indeed use heitä for people. However, in spoken Finnish, it is extremely common to use the inanimate pronoun ne (they/those) for people. Niitä is the partitive form of ne, required here by the verb huvittaa.
Why is 'to the countryside' maaseudulle and not maaseutuun?
With certain places, Finnish uses external location cases (like the allative -lle, meaning 'onto') instead of internal ones. You travel 'onto' the countryside (maaseudulle). Notice also the consonant gradation: the strong t in maaseutu weakens to d before the ending.
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