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Jäimme mökille kesän loppuun asti.

Jäimme mökille kesän loppuun asti.
We stayed at the cabin until the end of the summer.
From Lesson 225:Deadlines and limits (asti, saakka, mennessä)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Jäimme mökille kesän loppuun asti.

Why is loppu in the illative case (loppuun) before asti?
The postposition asti (until / all the way to) requires the word before it to be in the illative case (the "into" case) when expressing an endpoint in time or space. Here, it indicates staying up to the endpoint of the summer.
Could we use saakka instead of asti in this sentence?
Yes! The postpositions asti and saakka are completely interchangeable when used to mean "until". You could just as easily say kesän loppuun saakka without changing the meaning at all.
Why is it mökille (to the cabin) instead of mökillä (at the cabin) when the English translation says "at"?
The verb jäädä (to stay/remain) requires a destination case in Finnish. You can think of it as "leaving yourself to a place". Because of this, you must use "to" cases like the allative (mökille) or illative, rather than location cases like the adessive (mökillä).
Why is kesän in the genitive case here?
Kesän means "of the summer" or "summer's". In Finnish, the genitive modifier almost always comes directly before the noun it modifies. Together with loppuun, it forms the phrase kesän loppuun (to the end of the summer).

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