Word
Tässä paketissa on jotakin salaperäistä, ja jonkun arvaus on väärä.
Meaning
There is something mysterious in this package, and someone's guess is wrong.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tässä paketissa on jotakin salaperäistä, ja jonkun arvaus on väärä.
tämä
this
olla
to be
ja
and
paketti
the package
Questions & Answers about Tässä paketissa on jotakin salaperäistä, ja jonkun arvaus on väärä.
Why is the word for 'something' written as jotakin here instead of its basic form jokin?
Jotakin is the partitive form of the inanimate pronoun jokin (something). When you use 'something' alongside an adjective to describe an abstract or unknown quality, it takes the partitive case.
Why is salaperäistä (mysterious) also in the partitive case?
Adjectives always have to match the case of the pronoun or noun they describe. Because jotakin is in the partitive, the basic adjective salaperäinen must also take the partitive case, becoming salaperäistä.
How does the word joku become jonkun in this sentence?
Jonkun is the genitive (possessive) form of joku (someone), meaning 'someone's'. The pronouns joku and jokin are tricky because both halves of the word take the case ending! The first half jo- gets an -n (becoming jon-), and the second half -ku gets an -n (becoming -kun). Put them together and you get jonkun.
Why do both tässä and paketissa have the same ending?