metriä

In a sentence

• Pidän kahden metrin etäisyyttä muihin ihmisiin.

  I keep a distance of two meters from other people.

  Here, 'metriä' is the partitive case of 'metri', used because 'kahden' ('of two') typically requires the partitive case to indicate an amount.

• Jokainen metriä pitempi askel oli huomattava.

  Every step longer than a meter was noticeable.

  In this sentence, 'metriä' is used with a comparative expression (pitempi, 'longer'), and the partitive case fits describing a quantity yet to be exceeded.

• He juoksivat noin sata metriä.

  They ran approximately a hundred meters.

  Here, 'metriä' is used in the partitive case to indicate a measured amount within the scope of an approximate action, emphasized by 'noin' ('approximately').

• Juoksin sata metriä nopeammin kuin odotin.

  I ran a hundred meters faster than I expected.

  Here, 'metriä' is used in the partitive case to describe a measurement of distance being covered or involved in the action of running.

• Rakennus on korkea, noin viisikymmentä metriä.

  The building is tall, about fifty meters.

  In this sentence, 'metriä' is part of a measurement indicating a height.

• Järvi on syvä, lähes kolmekymmentä metriä.

  The lake is deep, almost thirty meters.

  Here, 'metriä' indicates a depth measurement and is used to describe the lake.