Mieleni oli kirkas ja olin iloinen siitä että oli aurinkoinen sää. Nikon luona käydessä onkin valittava kaunis sää, ajattelin mielessäni. Niin kaikki näyttää paremmalta, Niko itsekin. Kävelimme pitkin valoisaa käytävää, seinillä oli kirkasvärisiä piirustuksia — jokin niistä saattoi olla Nikon. Värejä ja valoa, ja sitten Niko niiden keskellä, hiljaisena ja vierastaen koska ei ollut ennen nähnyt Ilkkaa.
My mind was clear, and I was happy that the weather was sunny. You should visit Niko only when you have beautiful weather, I thought to myself. Everything looks better like that, Niko too. We walked along the bright hallway, brightly colored pictures were on the walls - one of them might have been Niko's. Colors and light, and then in the middle of them, Niko, silent and shy because he hadn't seen Ilkka before.
* sää : weather
* luona : (postposition) at, by, near, close to (with genitive and/or possessive form)
* käydä : (intransitive) to visit, go to
* Second Infinitive (E-infinitive) : Its marker is an -e-. It appears in two cases, the inessive (-essa) and the instructive (-en). The marker -e- is added to the verb's first infinitive without the last -A.
* Second Infinitive's missä-form : It expresses what is happening while something else is happening.
* Second Infinitive's instructive form : It expresses how something is done.
* valita : (transitive) to choose, select
* Passive Present Participle (-(t)tava/-(t)tävä) : A more advanced way to express necessity involves the present passive participle. This construction always uses the verb olla. The marker is added to the weak stem of the verb.
* pitkin : (with partitive) along (in a line with, with a progressive motion on)
* valoisa : bright, full of light
* käytävä : corridor, hallway
* seinä : wall (substantial structure acting as side or division in a building)
* kirkasvärinen : brightly-colored
* piirustus : a drawing (picture)
* väri : color
* keskellä : (postposition) in the middle of, in the center of (with genitive)
* vierastaa : (transitive, usually atelic) to be shy of
