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Basisti antoi nimikirjoituksen fanille viime perjantaina.

Basisti antoi nimikirjoituksen fanille viime perjantaina.
The bassist gave an autograph to a fan last Friday.
From Lesson 459:Demonstrative time modifiers (tänä, ensi, viime)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Basisti antoi nimikirjoituksen fanille viime perjantaina.

Why doesn't viime take the essive ending -na to match perjantaina?
Viime (last) is an indeclinable modifier. Unlike most adjectives and pronouns in Finnish, it never changes its form to agree with the noun it modifies. So while perjantai gets the essive ending to express when something happened (perjantaina), viime stays exactly as it is.
Why is the object nimikirjoituksen rather than the partitive nimikirjoitusta?
The verb antaa (to give) describes a completed action here. Because the bassist successfully gave a single, whole autograph, the object takes the total object case, which is the genitive-looking accusative ending in -n.
Why is "to a fan" translated using the allative case (fanille)?
When you give, say, or bring something to a person, Finnish consistently uses the allative case (-lle). You can think of it as handing the autograph "onto" the fan's possession.
How does the word nimikirjoitus (autograph) get its -ksen ending?
It is a compound of nimi (name) and kirjoitus (writing). Nouns ending in -us that are derived from verbs (like kirjoittaa -> kirjoitus) change their final -s to -kse- before adding most endings. Adding the -n object marker gives us nimikirjoituksen.

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