Breakdown of Tämä luonnos on nopeampi lukea.
tämä
this
olla
to be
lukea
to read
nopea
fast (adjective)
luonnos
draft
Questions & Answers about Tämä luonnos on nopeampi lukea.
Since this lesson is about time expressions and the translative case, why doesn't 'quicker' take the translative ending?
The translative case is used to express a deadline (like 'by tomorrow') or an intended duration ('for two hours'). In this sentence, nopeampi just describes the draft itself as being a quicker read. It's a standard adjective describing a noun, so it stays in the nominative case.
Why is the adjective nopeampi in the nominative case instead of the partitive nopeampaa?
The subject of the sentence, luonnos (draft), is a specific, countable noun. In Finnish, when you have a specific countable subject in the nominative, the adjective describing it is also in the nominative. If the subject were an uncountable substance, you would use the partitive.
Why use the basic verb form lukea (to read) instead of a verbal noun like lukeminen?
This sentence uses a very common and direct structure: adjective + first infinitive. Just like in English, 'is quicker to read' translates perfectly into Finnish using the dictionary form of the verb (lukea).
How does the noun luonnos behave when we need to add case endings to it?
Luonnos is a noun ending in -os. For these words, the final -s changes to -kse- when adding most grammatical endings. For example, 'of the draft' is luonnoksen and the illative (into the draft) is luonnokseen.
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