Breakdown of Pidän enemmän raidallisista ja värikkäistä vaatteista.
ja
and
pitää
to like
vaate
the garment
enemmän
more (comparative of paljon)
raidallinen
striped
värikäs
colorful
Questions & Answers about Pidän enemmän raidallisista ja värikkäistä vaatteista.
Why aren't the adjectives in the partitive plural here, since that's the current lesson topic?
This sentence doesn't have a subject complement like 'The clothes are colorful'. Instead, it uses the verb pitää (to like). This verb strictly requires the thing being liked to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). Therefore, 'clothes' and its adjectives must be in the plural elative rather than the partitive.
Why do raidallisista and värikkäistä also have the -sta/-stä endings?
How do we express 'to prefer' in this sentence?
Finnish doesn't have a single everyday verb for 'to prefer'. Instead, you express it by saying 'to like more'. You use the verb pitää (to like) combined with the comparative word enemmän (more).
How does the basic word värikäs (colorful) transform into värikkäistä?
For words ending in -äs, the basic stem changes to end in a double vowel (here, värikkää-). This change triggers the strong consonant grade, so the single k becomes a double kk. To make the plural elative, you add the plural marker -i- and the ending -stä, resulting in värikkäistä.
Why does the word vaate (piece of clothing) have a double tt in vaatteista?
Words ending in -e get an extra -e in their stem, which triggers the strong consonant grade. So, the single t in vaate doubles to tt, making the stem vaattee-. When we add the plural -i-, one of the e vowels drops out, and then we attach the -sta ending.
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