Word
Kunpa en olisi haaskannut rahaani siihen.
Meaning
If only I had not wasted my money on it.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kunpa en olisi haaskannut rahaani siihen.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
raha
money
Questions & Answers about Kunpa en olisi haaskannut rahaani siihen.
How does the negative past conditional work with kunpa in this sentence?
The particle kunpa (if only) expresses a strong wish or regret. To make it negative in the past tense, it is followed by the negative verb en, the conditional auxiliary olisi (which doesn't take a personal ending here because en already has it), and the past participle haaskannut.
Why is the word for money in the partitive case (rahaani)?
The verb haaskata (to waste) is a partitive verb, meaning its object must take the partitive case. The base partitive is rahaa, and attaching the first-person singular possessive suffix -ni gives us rahaani.
Why does siihen use the illative (into) case when the English translation says 'on it'?
In Finnish, the verb haaskata requires the target of the wasting to be in the illative case (into). Therefore, the pronoun se (it) becomes siihen. You are conceptually throwing money 'into' the useless thing.
Why is the participle haaskannut spelled with a double n?