Pysäköinninvalvoja pyytää vastineen.

The parking inspector asks for a response.

Breakdown of Pysäköinninvalvoja pyytää vastineen.

• pyytää: to ask for
• pysäköinninvalvoja: the parking inspector
• vastine: the response; counterstatement

Questions & Answers about Pysäköinninvalvoja pyytää vastineen.

Why is pysäköinninvalvoja written as one long word?

Because it is a Finnish compound noun. Finnish makes compounds very freely, and job titles are often written as one word.

Here it is built from:

• pysäköinti = parking
• valvoja = supervisor, inspector, monitor

So pysäköinninvalvoja is a single compound meaning parking inspector / parking enforcement officer.

Writing it as two separate words would usually look wrong in standard Finnish for this kind of established title.

Why is there an -n in the middle: pysäköinnin-valvoja?

The first part of the compound is in a genitive-like linking form:

• pysäköinti → pysäköinnin

So the compound is literally something like inspector of parking.

This is very common in Finnish compounds. English often uses of or just puts two nouns together, but Finnish often links the first part with a form ending in -n.

Also, the change from pysäköinti to pysäköinnin is a normal inflection pattern for this noun type.

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