Breakdown of Raportti on oikein hyvä.
olla
to be
hyvä
good
raportti
report (document, structured account)
oikein
correctly; really
Questions & Answers about Raportti on oikein hyvä.
Doesn't oikein usually mean "right" or "correctly"?
It does! However, in everyday Finnish, oikein is frequently used as an emphasizing word meaning "really" or "very" when placed right before an adjective. So here, oikein hyvä means "really good".
Could I use tosi or todella instead of oikein here?
Yes, absolutely. Raportti on tosi hyvä and Raportti on todella hyvä mean exactly the same thing. Using oikein in this way is just another common option you will hear native speakers use.
Why do we use the adjective hyvä (good) instead of the adverb hyvin (well)?
Because we are describing a noun (raportti). Adjectives describe nouns (the report is good), while adverbs describe actions or verbs (he writes well). Even though it comes after an adverb like oikein, the word hyvä still describes the report itself.
How would I use a comparative adverb ending in -mmin from this lesson to say the report was done better?
To use an adverb ending in -mmin, you need an action (a verb) to describe. This sentence only has an adjective describing a noun. If you wanted to say someone wrote the report better, you would use the comparative adverb paremmin (better). For example: Hän kirjoitti raportin paremmin (He wrote the report better). If you just want to say the report itself is better, you use the comparative adjective parempi.