Breakdown of Minulla on suuri unelma matkustaa Lappiin.
Questions & Answers about Minulla on suuri unelma matkustaa Lappiin.
Minulla is in the adessive case. In Finnish possession constructions, the possessor takes -lla/-llä, and the thing possessed follows with on:
• Minulla on auto = “I have a car.”
After nouns like unelma (“dream”), Finnish uses the first infinitive (dictionary form, -a/ä) to indicate what the dream is about:
• suuri unelma matkustaa = “a big dream to travel.”
You don’t conjugate it because it’s a noun complement, and you don’t use the second infinitive (-maan/mään) here—that form expresses purpose with a finite verb of motion (e.g. Lähden matkustamaan Lappiin “I’m setting off to travel to Lapland”).
Lappiin is the illative case, showing movement “into” Lapland. For most multi-syllable words, you lengthen the final vowel and add -n:
• talo → taloon
• Lappi → Lappiin
The double i marks the long vowel plus the illative -n.