Breakdown of Minua suututtaa, jos elokuva on huonompi kuin kirja.
olla
to be
kirja
book
minä
I
huono
bad
elokuva
movie
jos
if
kuin
than / before (in 'ennen kuin') / like / as
suututtaa
to anger
Questions & Answers about Minua suututtaa, jos elokuva on huonompi kuin kirja.
How does the verb suututtaa change the meaning of "getting angry"?
It is a causative verb made with the -ttaa suffix. It comes from the verb suuttua (to get angry). While suuttua means you get angry yourself, the causative suututtaa means "to cause anger" or "to make someone angry". Here, the situation is making you angry.
Why is it minua (partitive) instead of minä (nominative) at the beginning of the sentence?
With emotion and sensation verbs ending in -ttaa (like suututtaa, jännittää, or väsyttää), the person experiencing the feeling is put in the partitive case. Grammatically, the situation (the movie being worse) is the subject causing the action, and minua is the object receiving the feeling.
What is the base word for huonompi?
Huonompi means "worse" and is the comparative form of the adjective huono (bad). You form it by taking the stem of the adjective and adding the comparative suffix -mpi.
Could this comparison be written without the word kuin?
Yes! When comparing two things, you can either use kuin (than) followed by the nominative case (kuin kirja), or you can drop kuin and put the compared word into the partitive case. So, you could also say kirjaa huonompi (worse than the book).
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