Breakdown of Näissä kokeiluissa on kaksi tasoa.
olla
to be
nämä
these
kaksi
two
taso
the level
kokeilu
the trial
Questions & Answers about Näissä kokeiluissa on kaksi tasoa.
Why is the verb on singular when the sentence is talking about "two levels"?
This is a typical Finnish existential sentence, which states that something exists somewhere. These sentences usually start with a location (näissä kokeiluissa), followed by the verb. In this structure, the verb is always the singular on, even if the things that exist are plural.
How do we form kokeiluissa from its base word?
The base word is kokeilu (trial or experiment). To say "in the trials", we need the plural inessive ending. We add the plural marker -i- followed by the "in" ending -ssa. Because kokeilu ends in an -u, the -i- simply attaches to the end without dropping any letters, giving us kokeiluissa.
Why does the sentence use näissä instead of the basic plural nämä (these)?
In Finnish, demonstrative words like "this" or "these" must match the case of the noun they point to. Since the noun kokeiluissa is in the plural inessive case (meaning "in the trials"), the pronoun tämä (this) must also take the plural inessive form, which is näissä ("in these").
Why is it kaksi tasoa instead of using the plural form tasot?
Whenever you use a number greater than one in Finnish, the noun that directly follows it must be in the singular partitive case. The base word here is taso (level), and adding the partitive ending -a gives us tasoa.
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