Breakdown of Saimme suuren asuntolainan, joten ostamme tämän omakotitalon omistajalta.
tämä
this
ostaa
to buy
omistaja
owner
saada
to get
suuri
large, great
joten
so, therefore
omakotitalo
detached house
asuntolaina
mortgage
Questions & Answers about Saimme suuren asuntolainan, joten ostamme tämän omakotitalon omistajalta.
Why is "from the owner" in the ablative case (omistajalta)?
Why do both asuntolainan and omakotitalon end in -n?
They are both total objects. We got the entire mortgage (saimme suuren asuntolainan) and we are buying the entire house (ostamme tämän omakotitalon). When a sentence describes a complete action that affects the whole object, the object takes the genitive-accusative -n ending.
How do the compound words asuntolaina and omakotitalo break down?
Asuntolaina combines asunto (housing/apartment) and laina (loan) to mean "mortgage". Omakotitalo means "detached house" and is famously made of three words: oma (own), koti (home), and talo (house) — literally an "own-home-house".
Why does the first half of the sentence use the past tense, while the second half uses the present tense?
This perfectly matches the real-world sequence of events. First, the loan was approved and received in the past (saimme, "we got"). As a result (joten), the current or future action is buying the house (ostamme, "we are buying" or "we will buy"). Because Finnish does not have a separate future tense, the present tense is used here to indicate what will happen next.
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