Word
Matkustatko Espanjaan kuukaudeksi?
Meaning
Are you traveling to Spain for a month?
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Matkustatko Espanjaan kuukaudeksi?
Why does the word for month end in -ksi here?
This is the translative case. In Finnish, when you state an intended duration like how long you plan to stay in Spain, you add -ksi to the time word. So kuukausi (a month) becomes kuukaudeksi (for a month).
How does kuukausi change into kuukaude- before the -ksi ending?
Words ending in -si often change to -te- or -de- in their stem. Because the -ksi ending closes the syllable, consonant gradation changes the strong t to a weak d, giving us the stem kuukaude- before adding the ending.
What would it mean if I used the accusative kuukauden instead of kuukaudeksi?
If you said Matkustatko Espanjaan kuukauden?, it would mean the actual journey to get there takes a month. The translative -ksi is required to show that a month is the intended time you will spend at the destination once you arrive.
Why do we use Espanjaan instead of Espanjalle?