Breakdown of Lisäksi hotelli on lähellä asemaa.
olla
to be
hotelli
hotel
asema
station
lähellä
near
lisäksi
in addition, furthermore
Questions & Answers about Lisäksi hotelli on lähellä asemaa.
Why is asemaa in the partitive case here, rather than the genitive?
The word lähellä (near) is flexible—it can be used as either a preposition or a postposition. When it acts as a preposition (coming before the noun, as in lähellä asemaa), it requires the partitive case. If you wanted to use it as a postposition (coming after the noun), you would use the genitive case instead: aseman lähellä. Both versions are perfectly natural and mean the exact same thing.
How is the word lisäksi formed, and why does it have the translative -ksi ending?
Lisäksi is formed from the noun lisä (an addition or extra) plus the translative case ending -ksi. While you likely know that the translative usually expresses a change of state (becoming something), it is also heavily used in Finnish to create fixed adverbs. Here, it functions as a sentence connector meaning 'in addition', 'besides', or 'furthermore'.
Could I put lisäksi at the end of the sentence to mean 'too' or 'also'?
It wouldn't sound natural. Lisäksi is a sentence connector used to introduce a new, additional point, so it almost always belongs at the beginning of the clause. If you want to say 'also' or 'too' at the end of a thought, it is much better to attach the clitic -kin to the relevant word, or use myös (also) earlier in the sentence.
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