How to talk about home in Finnish

I can't believe that I haven't written about koti yet! I do have posts about common nouns such as lapsi, vuosi and mökki, but nothing about koti until now.

Sentences with koti:

• genitive: Meidän kodin vieressä on puisto. - There is a park next to our home. 
• partitive: Minulla on kaksi kotia. - I have two homes. 
• illative: Mä menen kotiin. - I'm going (to) home. 
• ablative: Täällä tuoksuu ihan meidän kodilta. - It smells just like our home here. 
• essive: Hän pitää tätä kotinaan. - He conciders this his home.
• translative: Kutsutko sinä tätä kodiksi? - Do you call this a home?

Irregular forms: kotona and kotoa

• Missä sinä olit?  - Kotona. - Where were you?  - At home. (Kotona is actually a locative, but let's just focus on the fact that it means at home.)
• Mistä sinä tulet?  - Kotoa. - Where do you come from? - From home.

However, you can use the regular forms in these kind of sentences:

• Näin järjestät juhlat pienessä kodissa. - Here's how you'll organize a party in a small home. (In a home in general)
• Missä päiväkodissa teidän lapset ovat? - To which daycare do your children go?
• Mä tykkään sun kodista! - I like your home! 
• Me puhutaan Tiinan uudesta kodista. - We're talking about Tiina's new home.

Related posts:

• Luona, luota, luokse
• Eleven most useful cases
• Consonant change in nouns
• Parenting in Finland

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