Questions & Answers about Miten tämä sanotaan ruotsiksi?
Why does the word for Swedish end in -ksi (ruotsiksi)?
The ending -ksi is the Translative case. In Finnish, when you are talking about the language of communication—such as how something is spoken, written, or translated—you attach -ksi to the name of the language. So, ruotsi (Swedish) becomes ruotsiksi (in Swedish).
What verb form is sanotaan?
"This" is the object being said, so why isn't tämä in an object case like the partitive or genitive?
In Finnish, when a sentence is in the passive voice (like sanotaan), a whole object doesn't take the normal -n ending (the genitive-accusative). Instead, it stays in the basic nominative form. That is why it remains just tämä.
Can I use kuinka instead of miten to mean "how" here?
Yes, you can! Kuinka tämä sanotaan ruotsiksi? means exactly the same thing. However, miten is extremely common in everyday spoken Finnish when asking for instructions or translations.
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