Word
Tässä toisessa autossa on paljon isompi tavaratila.
Meaning
This other car has a much bigger trunk.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Tässä toisessa autossa on paljon isompi tavaratila.
Why does the sentence use toisessa instead of muussa for "other"?
The pronoun toinen is used when referring to "the other" out of two specific options, or "another" of the same kind. Here, the speaker is comparing this car to another specific car they are looking at. If they meant "some completely different kind of car" in a general sense, they would use muu.
Why do tässä, toisessa, and autossa all end in -ssa?
This is case agreement. In Finnish, demonstrative pronouns (like tämä) and adjectives/pronouns (like toinen) must match the case of the noun they modify. Since auto is in the inessive case (autossa), its modifiers become tässä and toisessa.
Why is it autossa on instead of autolla on for "the car has"?
While the adessive case (-lla) is the standard way to express ownership for people (e.g., minulla on), inanimate objects often use the inessive case (-ssa) if the feature is physically contained inside them. Since the trunk is a space inside the car, autossa on (literally "in the car is") is the most natural choice.
Why is isompi tavaratila in the nominative case here rather than the partitive?