Breakdown of Heinäkuussa matkustan yleensä perheen kanssa, koska silloin minulla on kesäloma.
Questions & Answers about Heinäkuussa matkustan yleensä perheen kanssa, koska silloin minulla on kesäloma.
Heinäkuussa is the form meaning in July. The basic word is heinäkuu = July, and the ending -ssa/-ssä is the inessive case, which often means in.
So:
- heinäkuu = July
- heinäkuussa = in July
Finnish uses this pattern with months very often:
- tammikuussa = in January
- maaliskuussa = in March
- joulukuussa = in December
Also, month names in Finnish are normally not capitalized unless they begin a sentence. So in the middle of a sentence, you would usually write heinäkuussa.
Finnish does not have articles like English a/an/the.
That means a word like kesäloma can mean:
- a summer vacation
- the summer vacation
- just summer vacation
The exact meaning comes from context.
The same is true throughout the sentence. Finnish relies much more on context, word order, and case endings than on articles.