When tweaking your coffee recipe, you often want to express that the latest batch is "more [adjective] than before." Finnish does this elegantly by placing entistä (the partitive form of entinen, "former" or "previous") directly before a comparative word.
Entistä + Comparative Adjective
Combine entistä with a comparative adjective (often ending in -mpi) to compare something to its past state.
| This roast is darker than before. | Tämä paahto on entistä tummempi. |
| The new bean is more aromatic than before. | Uusi papu on entistä aromikkaampi. |
If the noun you are describing requires the partitive case (like the uncountable kahvi), the comparative adjective must also be in the partitive (ending in -mpaa or -mpää). The word entistä never changes.
| This coffee is more aromatic and more full-bodied than before. | Tämä kahvi on entistä aromikkaampaa ja täyteläisempää. |
| I feel like having better coffee than before. | Minun tekee mieli entistä parempaa kahvia. |
Yhä + Comparative
To express that a quality is continuously developing—meaning "increasingly" or "more and more"—pair yhä with a comparative adjective.
| I like this roast, because it is increasingly full-bodied. | Pidän tästä paahdosta, koska se on yhä täyteläisempi. |
Actions: Entistä + Comparative Adverb
You can use the exact same structure to describe how you do things. Pair entistä with a comparative adverb (which often ends in -mmin) to express doing an action faster, better, or more than before.
| The barista roasts coffee more than before. | Barista paahtaa kahvia entistä enemmän. |
| Why do you grind the beans faster than before? | Miksi jauhat pavut entistä nopeammin? |
| The new coffee grinder grinds the beans better than before. | Uusi kahvimylly jauhaa pavut entistä paremmin. |