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Breakdown of Yleensä kuljen bussilla töihin, koska se on kätevää.
minä
I
olla
to be
koska
because
se
it
yleensä
usually
kulkea
to commute
-llä
by
bussi
the bus
työ
the work
kätevä
convenient
Questions & Answers about Yleensä kuljen bussilla töihin, koska se on kätevää.
What does yleensä mean, and why is it placed at the beginning of the sentence?
Yleensä translates as "usually" in English. In Finnish, adverbs like this are often placed at the beginning of the sentence to set the overall context or frequency of the action—here, it emphasizes that going to work by bus is a habitual occurrence.
What is the form and meaning of kuljen in this sentence?
Kuljen is the first person singular present tense of the verb kulkea, which means "to go" or "to travel." It indicates that the speaker is the one consistently traveling to work, reflecting a habitual action.
How does bussilla function in the sentence, and what case is it in?
Bussilla means "by bus." It is in the adessive case (marked with -lla), which in Finnish is commonly used to express the means or mode of transportation, among other uses.
Why is the word töihin used to express "to work," and what grammatical form is it?
Töihin signifies "to work" as a destination and is in the illative case, which indicates movement toward a location or state. Although you might expect a form like työhön from the basic word työ (work), the idiomatic expression in Finnish uses töihin—a form shaped by historical usage and the rules of consonant gradation—to mean "to work" in everyday speech.
Why does the adjective kätevää appear in a form ending with -ää rather than its base form?
In Finnish, when an adjective functions as a predicate after the verb olla (to be), it can take the partitive form to express a quality or state that is seen as non-absolute or somewhat variable. Here, kätevää (meaning "convenient") is in the partitive, suggesting that taking the bus is generally convenient rather than defining an unchanging, complete state.
What role does the conjunction koska play in the sentence?
Koska means "because." It introduces a subordinate clause that explains the reason for the first clause. In this sentence, it connects the habitual action of going to work by bus with its justification—that it is convenient.
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