Nukkumaanmeno on minulle tärkeä hetki.

to be

Breakdown of Nukkumaanmeno on minulle tärkeä hetki.

• hetki: the moment
• tärkeä: important
• minulle: me

Questions & Answers about Nukkumaanmeno on minulle tärkeä hetki.

Why is nukkumaanmeno written as one word? Could it also be nukkumaan meno?

Yes, you will see both nukkumaanmeno (one word) and nukkumaan meno (two words).

• Finnish very often turns a whole phrase into one compound noun when it refers to a fairly fixed “everyday activity” or concept (like ruoanlaitto “cooking (food)”, hampaidenpesu “tooth-brushing”).
• Nukkumaanmeno is exactly this kind of everyday routine: “the act of going to sleep / bedtime”, so it is natural as one word.

Nuance:

• nukkumaanmeno (one word) feels like a more fixed concept (“bedtime, the going-to-sleep routine”).
• nukkumaan meno (two words) is also grammatically fine; it can feel a bit more like literally “the going to sleep”, with meno more clearly a separate noun.

In normal written Finnish, the one-word form nukkumaanmeno is very common and perfectly standard.

How is the word nukkumaanmeno built up? What do its parts mean?