Breakdown of Olemme kiitollisia tästä mahdollisuudesta.
tämä
this
olla
to be
mahdollisuus
the opportunity
kiitollinen
grateful
Questions & Answers about Olemme kiitollisia tästä mahdollisuudesta.
Why are tästä mahdollisuudesta in the elative case (-sta/-stä) when the translation says "for"?
This is a great example of adjective rection. The adjective kiitollinen (grateful) always requires the thing you are grateful for to be in the elative case. So while in English you are grateful "for" something, in Finnish you are structurally grateful "from" it.
Why is the adjective written as kiitollisia (partitive plural) instead of kiitolliset (nominative plural)?
When an adjective describes a plural subject (like "we", "you", or "they") after the verb olla (to be), it must be in the partitive plural. You would only use the nominative plural kiitolliset if it were directly attached to a noun, like in the phrase "the grateful people".
What is the base form of mahdollisuudesta, and how does it change to get that ending?
The base word is mahdollisuus (opportunity). Nouns ending in -uus or -yys change their ending to -uude- or -yyde- before adding most case endings. To get "from the opportunity", we take the stem mahdollisuude- and add the elative ending -sta.
Why do we use tästä instead of the basic word tämä?