Questions & Answers about Kapea polku johtaa järveltä mökille.
Yes, in Finnish an attributive adjective normally comes before the noun it describes, just like in English:
- kapea polku – a narrow path
- iso järvi – a big lake
- vanha mökki – an old cottage
When the adjective is directly modifying the noun (not separated by a verb), this is the normal word order.
The adjective also usually agrees with the noun in number and case, e.g.:
- kapea polku (nominative singular)
- kapeat polut (nominative plural)
- kapealla polulla (adessive singular: “on the narrow path”)
In your sentence it’s nominative singular because kapea polku is the subject of the sentence.
The basic form (nominative singular) is used for the subject of the sentence in a simple statement:
- Kapea polku (subject) johtaa (verb) …
Other forms of polku are used for different functions:
- polun – genitive (“of the path”)
- polkua – partitive (e.g. “(some) path”, or in certain verb constructions)
- polulla – adessive (“on the path”)
Here we just need “the path” as the subject, so the nominative polku is correct.