Word
Opiskelijat maksavat lukukausimaksua, kunnes opetus loppuu.
Meaning
The students pay the tuition fee until the teaching ends.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Opiskelijat maksavat lukukausimaksua, kunnes opetus loppuu.
opiskelija
student
loppua
to end
maksaa
to pay
kunnes
until
Questions & Answers about Opiskelijat maksavat lukukausimaksua, kunnes opetus loppuu.
The current lesson is about pronoun bridges. Could we use a structure like siihen asti, että instead of kunnes here?
Yes! While kunnes is a standalone conjunction meaning "until," you could perfectly well use a pronoun bridge here: ...siihen asti, että opetus loppuu (literally "until it, that the teaching ends"). kunnes is more concise and extremely common, but siihen asti, että puts a slightly stronger emphasis on the duration leading up to that exact endpoint.
Why is the object lukukausimaksua in the partitive case?
The partitive is used here because the action of paying is framed as an ongoing, continuous process rather than a single, completed transaction. The students are in the continuous state of paying these fees over time until the condition (teaching ending) is met.
How does the compound word lukukausimaksu break down?
It is made up of three parts: luku (reading/count), kausi (period/season), and maksu (fee/payment). Together, lukukausi is the standard Finnish word for an academic "semester" or "term," making the full word literally "semester fee" or tuition fee.
Could I use the verb päättyy instead of loppuu for "ends"?