Breakdown of Vuoren jyrkin rinne on vaarallinen.
olla
to be
vuori
mountain
jyrkkä
steep
rinne
slope
vaarallinen
dangerous
Questions & Answers about Vuoren jyrkin rinne on vaarallinen.
How is the superlative jyrkin formed from the basic adjective?
The basic word is jyrkkä (steep). To make the superlative, we add the suffix -in. When we add this to jyrkkä, two things happen: first, the final vowel -ä is dropped to make room for the -i-. Second, the double -kk- weakens to a single -k- because of consonant gradation. This gives us jyrkin (steepest).
Why is the word for mountain written as vuoren here?
Vuoren is the genitive (possession) form of vuori (mountain), meaning "the mountain's". Because vuori is an older Finnish word ending in -i, the -i changes to an -e- before we add the -n ending.
The word rinne (slope) ends in an -e. Does this mean it's in a special grammatical case?
No, rinne is actually in its basic dictionary form here! It belongs to the group of Finnish words that end in -e, like huone (room). If you needed to put it into a different case, its stem would change to rintee-.
How is the word vaarallinen (dangerous) built?
It comes from the noun vaara (danger). The suffix -llinen is a very common ending used to turn nouns into adjectives, similar to "-ous" or "-ful" in English. So, vaara plus -llinen creates the adjective vaarallinen.
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