Kun keskittyminen katoaa, nousen hetkeksi ylös ja venyttelen.

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Breakdown of Kun keskittyminen katoaa, nousen hetkeksi ylös ja venyttelen.

• ja: and
• kun: when
• hetki: the moment

Questions & Answers about Kun keskittyminen katoaa, nousen hetkeksi ylös ja venyttelen.

In Kun keskittyminen katoaa, why is kun used and not koska? Aren’t they both when?

Kun and koska are both conjunctions, but they’re used differently.

• kun = when (in a temporal or conditional sense)
  • Kun keskittyminen katoaa = When (whenever) concentration disappears
• koska = mainly because in modern Finnish
  • En tee sitä, koska olen väsynyt. = I’m not doing it because I’m tired.

In older or very formal language, koska can sometimes mean when, but in today’s everyday Finnish, for a time-based when, you almost always use kun.

So here, we’re talking about a situation that happens whenever something occurs, so kun is the natural choice.

What kind of word is keskittyminen, and why isn’t the verb keskittyy used instead?

Keskittyminen is a noun, not a verb. It’s an action noun formed with -minen from the verb keskittyä (to concentrate).

• keskittyä = to concentrate
• keskittyminen = concentration, the act of concentrating

The structure is:

• Kun keskittyminen katoaa
  When (the) concentration disappears

If you wrote kun keskittyy, that would be a verb: