Pysäköintilupa vanhentuu huomenna.

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Breakdown of Pysäköintilupa vanhentuu huomenna.

• pysäköintilupa: the parking permit
• vanhentua: to expire; become time-barred

Questions & Answers about Pysäköintilupa vanhentuu huomenna.

What does pysäköintilupa literally mean, and how is it built?

Pysäköintilupa is a compound noun:

• pysäköinti = parking
• lupa = permit, permission

So pysäköintilupa means parking permit.

This is very common in Finnish: two nouns are joined together into one word. The final part, lupa, is the main word, so the whole compound is a type of permit.

Why is pysäköintilupa written as one word?

Because Finnish normally writes compound nouns as a single word.

So where English says parking permit as two words, Finnish says pysäköintilupa as one word.

This is something English speakers often need to get used to, because Finnish compounds are very productive and very common.

What case is pysäköintilupa in here?

It is in the nominative singular.

In this sentence, pysäköintilupa is the subject:

• Pysäköintilupa = the parking permit
• vanhentuu = expires
• huomenna = tomorrow

So this is the basic subject form of the noun.

Why is there no word for the or a before pysäköintilupa?