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Questions & Answers about Yksi askel riittää.
What does each individual word in Yksi askel riittää correspond to?
- yksi = one (the number 1)
- askel = step (a single step)
- riittää = is enough / suffices / will do
Grammatically:
- yksi is a numeral.
- askel is a noun in the nominative singular.
- riittää is the 3rd person singular, present tense form of the verb riittää (to be enough, to suffice).
Why is it yksi askel, not yksi askelta? I thought numbers use the partitive.
Finnish has a specific rule for numbers:
With 1 (yksi), the counted noun is in the nominative singular:
- yksi askel = one step
- yksi talo = one house
With 2 and higher, the noun is usually in the partitive singular:
- kaksi askelta = two steps
- kolme taloa = three houses
So yksi askel is correct because yksi is the number one.
Partitive (askelta) appears with kaksi, kolme, neljä…, not with yksi.
Why is the word order ? Could I say ?