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Questions & Answers about Puisto on lähellä.
What does each word in Puisto on lähellä. correspond to, and what are their basic forms?
Puisto = park
- Basic (dictionary) form: puisto
- Case here: nominative singular (the “default” form).
on = is
- Basic form (infinitive): olla (to be)
- on is the 3rd person singular present form:
- minä olen – I am
- sinä olet – you are
- hän on – he/she/it is
lähellä = near / nearby / close by
- Basic form usually also listed as lähellä in dictionaries (it’s like a fixed “near” word).
- Morphologically it is the adessive form (ending -llä) of a stem lähe- meaning “near/close”.
- Functionally it works as an adverb/postposition meaning “(at) a close distance”.
Why is there no word for “the” or “a” before puisto?
Finnish does not have articles like a/an or the.
- Puisto on lähellä. can mean:
- “The park is nearby.”
- “A park is nearby.”
Context (or previous sentences) tells the listener whether it’s a specific park or just some park. You never add a separate word for “a” or “the” in Finnish; you just say .