Word
Me pääsimme maaliin väsymyksestä huolimatta.
Meaning
We reached the finish line despite fatigue.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Me pääsimme maaliin väsymyksestä huolimatta.
me
we
päästä
to get to, to reach
maali
finish line (the finish area or goal)
väsymys
fatigue
Questions & Answers about Me pääsimme maaliin väsymyksestä huolimatta.
Why is the word väsymys in the elative case (väsymyksestä)?
The postposition huolimatta (despite / regardless of) always requires the word it modifies to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä).
How does the base word väsymys (fatigue) change into väsymyksestä?
Nouns ending in -us or -ys (which are often formed from verbs, like väsyä becoming väsymys) change their final -s to the stem -kse- before you add a case ending. Then the elative ending -stä is added.
Does the word huolimatta come from a verb?
Yes! It is actually the abessive form (meaning "without") of the verb huolia (to care about / to worry about). Literally, väsymyksestä huolimatta means "without caring about fatigue". This explains why it takes the elative case, because the verb huolia also takes the elative.
Why is the finish line (maali) in the illative case (maaliin)?
The verb päästä (to manage to get somewhere, to reach) is treated as a verb of movement in Finnish. It requires the destination to be in the illative case (the "into" case), expressing that you successfully made it into the goal or destination.