Oli mukavaa että joku piti seuraa. Kun hän huomasi ettei minua huvittanut jutella, hän soitti minulle vähäsen aikaa. Luolassa oli jääkylmä ja minä päätin lähteä tieheni heti kun hän lakkaisi. Ja niin sanoin viimeisen säkeistön jälkeen: Oli miellyttävää tavata. Mutta nyt minun on kai valitettavasti lähdettävä. Kuinka kotona voidaan? Hyvin voidaan, vastasi hän.
It was nice that somebody kept my company. When he noticed that I didn't feel like talking, he made a phone call to me for a while. It was freezing cold in the cave and I decided to leave as soon as he finished. And so I said after the last verse: It was pleasant to meet you. But now, unfortunately, I probably have to go. How's it going at home? Good, he answered.
* mukava : comfortable, nice, pleasant
* pitää : (transitive, usually atelic) to hold, keep
* seura : company (visitors, companionship)
* huomata : to notice, find, discover, realise/realize, become aware of, detect
* huvittaa : (impersonal + partitive, auxiliary + first infinitive) to feel (like doing), want (to do)
* jutella : to have a chat (jostakin: about)
* soittaa jollekulle : to make a phone call to somebody
* vähäsen : just a bit (of)
* luola : cave
* jääkylmä : ice-cold, freezing cold, frosty, stone cold (very cold)
* päättää : (transitive) to decide, choose (with first infinitive 'to do')
* tiehensä : away, out, off; used with verbs of movement, etc. to signify going away from somewhere
* heti : (temporal) right away, as soon as (possible), immediately, at once
* heti kun : as soon as
* lakata : (intransitive) to cease, come to an end, end, stop, finish
* viimeinen : last, final
* säkeistö : verse
* jälkeen : (postposition) after, following (with genitive and/or possessive form)
* miellyttävä : pleasant
* tavata : to meet
* kai : probably, I guess (that) (used to express a possibility or belief of what's going to happen)
* valitettavasti : unfortunately
* Passive Present Participle (-(t)tava/-(t)tävä) : Used to express necessity: on mentävä kotiin, on oltava hiljaa. This construction always uses the verb olla. If the sentence has a subject, it will appear in the genitive case. The passive present participle's marker is -(t)tava/-(t)tävä. Add it to the weak stem of the verb.
* Kuinka : how (interrogative: in what way)
* kotona : at home, at somebody's place; home (on arrival)
* Present Passive : Used when we don’t say WHO is doing the action. (Verbtypes 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6: infinitive + -an/-än)
* voida : (intransitive) to be, feel, do, fare (to enquire or talk about wellbeing)