Word
Sinä korotat summan kahteenkymmeneenneljään euroon.
Meaning
You raise the sum to twenty-four euros.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Sinä korotat summan kahteenkymmeneenneljään euroon.
sinä
you
euro
euro
kaksikymmentäneljä
twenty-four
korottaa
to raise
Questions & Answers about Sinä korotat summan kahteenkymmeneenneljään euroon.
How exactly does the massive word kahteenkymmeneenneljään break down?
This is the illative ("into") form of kaksikymmentäneljä (twenty-four). In Finnish, every part of a compound number must take the matching case. You take kaksi, kymmenen (the base word for the "tens" part), and neljä, and put them all into the illative: kahteen + kymmeneen + neljään. Smushed together, they form the complete compound number.
Why do we use the illative case for the new amount (kahteenkymmeneenneljään euroon)?
The verb korottaa (to raise or increase) directs an action toward a new limit or endpoint. In Finnish, when you change a value to a new target amount, that destination amount takes the illative case.
Why is the object summan ending in -n rather than being in the partitive case?
Raising the sum to a specific number is considered a complete, finished action that affects the whole object. Because of this, it takes the accusative case (used for total objects). For singular nouns like summa, the accusative form ends in -n and looks identical to the genitive case.
What is the dictionary form of korotat, and why does it have only one t here?