Sorry, it's not like that - Edit 1
Before modification by Lordling at 17/10/2010 03:45:45 PM
(Apparently when the word ends in -a and the stem has a back rounded vowel in it, the plural -i deletes the -a.)
However, I don't know which case would be more appropriate here. You see why I'm doing it in English?
However, I don't know which case would be more appropriate here. You see why I'm doing it in English?
In saunas --> saunoissa (stem is sauna, -ssa makes it inessive, -i- marks the plural, o is an additional trinket)
To saunas = saunoihin, saunoille (you could say "saunahan" if you want to sound like a mummy. Old Finnish didn't like long vowels, so they added the letter h (-ahan/-aan). That has now changed, we love long vowels.)
Go to sauna = mennä saunaan.
The cases are a bit complicated because so very often you change the original word a bit. For example, star is tähti, but the genitive form is tähden, not tähtin, and when spoken, you drop the d, so it becomes tähen.