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Hän pyrkii unelma-ammattiin, mutta päätyy suoraan työelämään.

Hän pyrkii unelma-ammattiin, mutta päätyy suoraan työelämään.
He aims for a dream profession but ends up straight in working life.
From Lesson 379:Goal-oriented verbs (illative)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Hän pyrkii unelma-ammattiin, mutta päätyy suoraan työelämään.

Why are both unelma-ammattiin and työelämään in the illative case?
This sentence features two verbs that require the illative (the into case). Pyrkiä (to aim or strive) is goal-oriented, so you aim into a goal in Finnish. Päätyä (to end up) is a resolution verb, so the final outcome or destination is also expressed with the illative.
Is päätyä the same as the verb päättyä?
They are related but have a key difference that learners often mix up. Päätyä with one t means to end up somewhere or doing something. Päättyä with two ts means for an event or object to conclude, like a movie or a meeting ending.
Why is the word for straight written as suoraan instead of just suora?
Suora is the basic adjective form. Here we need an adverb to describe how he ended up in working life. Putting an adjective into the illative case is a common way to form directional adverbs in Finnish, making suoraan mean directly or straight into.
Why doesn't the word unelma change its case in unelma-ammattiin?
In most Finnish compound words, only the final part of the word takes the case ending. The first part, unelma (dream), stays in the basic nominative form, while ammatti (profession) takes the illative ending to satisfy the rection of pyrkiä.

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