Questions & Answers about Uusi kartta on parempi.
The lesson is about the comparative suffix -mpi, but parempi doesn't look like the word for good (hyvä). Why is that?
Parempi is an irregular comparative. Just like in English where good becomes better, the Finnish word hyvä becomes parempi rather than just adding the -mpi suffix to the normal stem. It is the most common irregular comparative you will see!
Why are we using the basic nominative form parempi here instead of the partitive parempaa?
We use the nominative parempi because kartta (map) is a whole, countable object. If we were describing an uncountable mass noun, like coffee (kahvi), we would need the partitive form: Uusi kahvi on parempaa (The new coffee is better).
How would I make uusi (new) comparative if I wanted to say The newer map is better?
You would add the -mpi suffix to the stem of uusi. The stem of uusi is uude-, so newer becomes uudempi. The sentence would then be: Uudempi kartta on parempi.
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