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Places in the city

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katu street tori market square
kirjakauppa bookshop leipomo bakery
apteekki chemist's, pharmacy puisto park
kirjasto library museo museum
rautatieasema railway station kauppa shop

Long words are often just short words glued together: kirja (book) + kauppa (shop) = kirjakauppa; rauta (iron) + tie (road) + asema (station) = rautatieasema, the “iron-road station”. Break a long word into its pieces and it stops being scary.

To ask the way: Anteeksi, missä on…? — Excuse me, where is…? Or Onko täällä…? — Is there a … here?