Breakdown of Tämä kaukokohde ei ole niin hintava kuin matka Espanjaan.
tämä
this
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
Espanja
Spain
matka
trip
niin
so
kuin
than / before (in 'ennen kuin') / like / as
kaukokohde
long-haul destination
hintava
pricey
Questions & Answers about Tämä kaukokohde ei ole niin hintava kuin matka Espanjaan.
In English we say 'as pricey as', using 'as' twice. Why does Finnish use niin and kuin?
Finnish uses the correlative pair niin ... kuin for equative comparisons. The word niin (so) modifies the adjective, and kuin (as/than) introduces the thing being compared to. You can think of it literally as 'so pricey as'.
Why is Spain in the illative case (Espanjaan) here instead of the nominative?
In Finnish, nouns involving movement or direction, like matka (trip/journey), often dictate that the attached destination must be in a directional case, like the illative 'into' case. Just as you say matkustan Espanjaan (I travel to Spain), you say matka Espanjaan (a trip to Spain).
I usually use kallis for 'expensive'. How does hintava compare?
The word hintava is formed from the noun hinta (price) plus the adjective-forming suffix -va. It means 'pricey' or 'costly'. It carries a very similar meaning to kallis but feels slightly softer or more colloquial, exactly like choosing 'pricey' over 'expensive'.
What are the parts of the compound word kaukokohde?
It is made of the prefix kauko- (distant/far, related to kaukana) and the noun kohde (target, destination, or object). Together they form the standard Finnish term for a long-haul travel destination.
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