Breakdown of Minun mielestäni tämä kirja on kiinnostava.
tämä
this
olla
to be
kirja
book
minä
I
kiinnostava
interesting
mielestä
in the opinion of (minun mielestäni = in my opinion)
Questions & Answers about Minun mielestäni tämä kirja on kiinnostava.
The current lesson is about the -kin ending (also/too). How would I add it to this sentence to say 'In my opinion too'?
You attach -kin directly to the word you want to emphasize. To say 'In my opinion too' (as in, agreeing with someone else), you add it to the pronoun: minunkin mielestäni.
What if I want to say 'This book is also interesting'? Where does the -kin go?
You attach it to the thing being added to the conversation. You could say tämäkin kirja on kiinnostava (this book also) or tämä kirjakin on kiinnostava. Both are correct and natural.
Literally, how is the word mielestäni built?
It literally translates to 'out of my mind'. It is built from the root word mieli (mind), the 'out of' ending -stä (elative case), and the possessive suffix -ni (my). In Finnish, opinions are expressed as coming 'out of' your mind.
Why is the adjective kiinnostava in its basic form here, rather than the partitive case kiinnostavaa?
Because kirja (book) is a single, countable, concrete object. When you describe a whole, countable noun in Finnish, the adjective takes the basic form (nominative). If the subject were an uncountable mass like coffee or an abstract concept, the adjective would take the partitive case.
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