Breakdown of Vähemmistö, jonka osuus on pieni, on yhä tärkeä.
olla
to be
pieni
small
tärkeä
important
joka
who / which (relative pronoun)
yhä
still, yet (continuing)
osuus
proportion
vähemmistö
minority
Questions & Answers about Vähemmistö, jonka osuus on pieni, on yhä tärkeä.
The current lesson is about fractions using osa. Is the word osuus related to that?
Yes! Osuus means "share", "proportion", or "quota". It is derived from osa (part), which you use to build fractions like kolmasosa (one third). While osa is a simple piece, osuus typically refers to a calculated share or percentage of a whole.
Why is the relative pronoun jonka used here instead of just joka?
How is the word vähemmistö (minority) built?
It is built from the comparative word vähemmän (less). The suffix -istö is added to create collective nouns, which are words for groups of people or things. The exact opposite is enemmistö (majority), built from enemmän (more).
Could I use vielä instead of yhä for "still"?
Yes, you could say on vielä tärkeä and it would mean the same thing. Both mean "still", but yhä often emphasizes that a state continues unchanged despite circumstances. Vielä is extremely common in everyday spoken Finnish, while yhä can sound slightly more formal or literary.
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