Breakdown of Tämä malli ei ole yhtä edullinen, mutta se on aivan yhtä kehittynyt.
tämä
this
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
mutta
but
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
malli
the style / the model
aivan
exactly / quite (completely)
yhtä
equally / as
edullinen
affordable
kehittynyt
advanced
Questions & Answers about Tämä malli ei ole yhtä edullinen, mutta se on aivan yhtä kehittynyt.
The current lesson is about the structure yhtä + adjective + kuin, but there is no kuin in this sentence. Why is it missing?
Just like in English, you can drop the kuin (as) part of the comparison when the thing you are comparing to is already obvious from the context. The sentence literally says "This model is not as affordable", which naturally implies "...as the other one we were just talking about."
What does the word aivan add to the phrase aivan yhtä kehittynyt?
The word aivan generally means "quite", "totally", or "exactly". When placed right before an equative comparison like yhtä kehittynyt, it emphasizes the exactness of the similarity, translating perfectly to "just as advanced" or "exactly as advanced".
What kind of word is kehittynyt and what is its base form?
It comes from the verb kehittyä (to develop). Kehittynyt is the active past participle (often called the NUT-participle). These participles frequently function as regular adjectives. Here it literally means "developed", which translates naturally to "advanced".
Why are the adjectives edullinen and kehittynyt in the basic nominative case instead of the partitive case?
The subject of the sentence, Tämä malli (This model), is a specific, countable thing. When describing a singular countable noun with the verb olla (to be), the describing adjective stays in the nominative case. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun (like coffee, time, or water), the adjectives would need to be in the partitive case (e.g., yhtä edullista).
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