Breakdown of Projekti on valmis neljäntenätoista, mikä on iso helpotus.
olla
to be
iso
big
valmis
ready
projekti
project
Questions & Answers about Projekti on valmis neljäntenätoista, mikä on iso helpotus.
How do we get neljäntenätoista from the basic word for 14th?
The basic word for 14th is neljästoista. When something happens ON a date, we use the essive case. The tricky part with ordinal numbers 11 to 19 is that only the first part changes. Neljäs (4th) takes the essive ending to become neljäntenä, and the -toista part never changes!
What exactly is the -nä ending in neljäntenätoista doing here?
That is the essive case ending. In Finnish, you use the essive ending (-na or -nä) to say that something happens ON a certain day or date, similar to how we say on Monday or on the 14th in English.
Why does this sentence use mikä for which instead of joka?
Both can mean which, but you must use mikä when it refers back to an entire previous sentence or idea. Here, it refers to the whole fact that the project is finishing on the 14th. If the word which referred back to a specific noun, like just the project, you would use joka.
Why is valmis (ready) not in the partitive case (valmista)?
Because projekti is a complete, countable thing. When describing a singular, countable subject, the describing adjective stays in the basic nominative case (valmis). You would only use the partitive case if the subject was an uncountable mass word, like food or coffee.