Breakdown of Mä menis bussilla säästä riippumatta, jos se ois esteetön.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
minä
I
bussi
bus
mennä
to go
sää
the weather
jos
if
esteetön
accessible
riippumatta
regardless of
Questions & Answers about Mä menis bussilla säästä riippumatta, jos se ois esteetön.
Why is the word for weather in the elative case (säästä) instead of just the partitive?
The word riippumatta (regardless of) requires the noun it attaches to to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). This makes perfect sense when you remember that it derives from the verb riippua (to depend), which also demands the elative, as in se riippuu säästä (it depends on the weather).
Could you change the word order and say riippumatta säästä?
Yes, you can. Riippumatta is one of the flexible Finnish adpositions that can act as either a postposition (säästä riippumatta) or a preposition (riippumatta säästä). Both are grammatically correct and mean the exact same thing, though putting it after the noun is generally more common.
The words menis and ois look like conditional forms, but they are missing standard endings. What are they?
They are very common spoken Finnish forms of the conditional mood. Menis is short for menisin (I would go), where the first-person -n marker is dropped. Ois is the spoken abbreviation of olisi (it would be).
How does the word esteetön translate to accessible?
It literally means barrier-free. It is formed from the noun este (barrier, obstacle) combined with the suffix -tön, which means without or -less. In Finnish, this is the standard word used for physical accessibility, such as for wheelchairs or strollers.
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