Direction and destination
Where is it going, or which way is it headed?
Merkitys
We can show where something is going or what it is directed toward. We can name a destination or just a direction, without saying that it is reached. Languages use words, endings, or parts of the verb, and some have no special direction endings. Unlike Place, Direction and destination describes where something is headed, not where it is.
Näin tunnistat sen
Look for the part that answers where something is going, which way it is headed, or what it is directed toward.
Opiskeltavalla kielelläsi
English uses to for many destinations, into for movement inside, and onto for movement to a surface. Toward names a direction without saying the destination is reached. Destination words such as home, here, and there normally follow a movement verb without to.
We're going to the library.
To names the destination.
She stepped into the kitchen.
Into shows movement from outside to inside.
It's late. Let's go home.
Home already names a destination, so no to is needed.
Learners whose language uses one general destination marker may confuse to, into, and onto. Learners whose language marks all destinations in the same way may add to before home, here, or there.