Suunnittelisin pidemmän matkan, jos meillä olisi enemmän lomaa.

I would plan a longer trip if we had more vacation.

Breakdown of Suunnittelisin pidemmän matkan, jos meillä olisi enemmän lomaa.

• minä: I
• me: we
• enemmän: more
• jos: if
• loma: the vacation
• pitkä: long
• suunnitella: to plan
• matka: the trip

Questions & Answers about Suunnittelisin pidemmän matkan, jos meillä olisi enemmän lomaa.

Why is suunnittelisin used here? How is this form constructed?

suunnittelisin is the first‐person singular conditional of suunnitella (“to plan”). You form the conditional by:

1. Taking the verb stem: suunnittel-
2. Adding the conditional marker: ‑isi-
3. Appending the personal ending for minä: ‑n
   So: suunnittel + isi + n → suunnittelisin (“I would plan”).

Why is the object pidemmän matkan in the partitive case?

In Finnish, verbs like suunnitella (“to plan”) typically take a partitive object when the action is not bounded or when you’re talking about planning something in general. Here pitkä (“long”) becomes the comparative pidempi, and in the partitive singular it’s pidemmän. Together you get pidemmän matkan (“a longer trip”).

Why is the clause jos meillä olisi enemmän lomaa using meillä olisi? Can’t you say meillämme olisi or use a verb for “have”?

Finnish expresses possession with olla (“to be”) plus the possessor in the adessive case (meillä, sinulla, hänellä, etc.). So meillä on means “we have.” The conditional meillä olisi means “we would have.” You don’t need a separate verb like “to have.” Also, meillämme would be the adessive of me, but Finnish prefers the short form meillä in these structures.

Why is lomaa in the partitive case in enemmän lomaa?

When expressing an indefinite amount or quantity of something—especially with comparatives like enemmän (“more”)—the noun takes the partitive. So loma (“vacation”) becomes lomaa to show “more vacation (time)” in an unspecified quantity.

Why is minä omitted before suunnittelisin?

Finnish verb endings encode the subject. In suunnittelisin, the ending -n tells you the subject is minä (“I”), so the pronoun is optional and usually left out unless you want to emphasize the subject.

Is the comma before jos mandatory, and can you swap the clauses?

Yes, a comma is normally used to separate a main clause from a subordinate clause introduced by jos. You can also flip the sentence:
Jos meillä olisi enemmän lomaa, suunnittelisin pidemmän matkan.
In that order, the comma is definitely required.

What nuance does the conditional mood (-isin) add compared to the indicative?

The conditional expresses a hypothetical or unreal situation.

• Indicative: suunnittelen = “I am planning” (factual)
• Conditional: suunnittelisin = “I would plan” (it depends on the condition of having more vacation)

Why is it pidemmän and not pitemmän?

The standard comparative of pitkä (“long”) is pidempi. In the partitive it becomes pidemmän. Pitempi is a spoken dialectal variant and is not used in standard written Finnish.