Questions & Answers about Tämä koira on vuohta fiksumpi.
Where is the word for "than" in this sentence?
This sentence uses a special comparative structure. Instead of using kuin (than) with the basic nominative form (fiksumpi kuin vuohi), it completely drops kuin and puts the thing being compared against into the partitive case (vuohta).
Why is vuohta placed before fiksumpi?
When you use this partitive comparison structure, the word in the partitive case (vuohta) usually goes right before the comparative adjective (fiksumpi). If you used the standard kuin structure, the order would be the other way around: fiksumpi kuin vuohi.
Why is the partitive of vuohi (goat) vuohta?
Just as a refresher, how do you form comparatives like fiksumpi?
To make a comparative (like "smarter"), you add the ending -mpi to the inflectional stem of the adjective. Because fiksu ends in a rounded vowel (u), its stem is exactly the same as the dictionary form, so you just attach the ending: fiksu + mpi = fiksumpi. Just remember that for adjectives ending in -a or -ä, that final vowel changes to -e- first (for example, vanha becomes vanhempi).
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