Breakdown of Sellainen kilpailu on täysin hullu.
olla
to be
hullu
crazy
sellainen
such, that kind of
täysin
completely
kilpailu
competition
Questions & Answers about Sellainen kilpailu on täysin hullu.
Why use sellainen here instead of tällainen or tuollainen?
Sellainen translates to "such a" or "that kind of" and usually refers to an abstract idea or something just mentioned in conversation. You would use tällainen (this kind of) for something right here, or tuollainen (that kind of) for something you can point to over there.
Does sellainen change its form depending on the sentence?
Yes. Because sellainen acts as an adjective, it must match the case and number of the noun it modifies. Here, both sellainen and kilpailu are in the basic nominative form. If you said "I like such a competition", both words would change to the elative case: Tykkään sellaisesta kilpailusta.
Could I use koko instead of täysin to mean "completely crazy"?
No, because koko (whole/entire) only modifies nouns, like in koko kilpailu (the whole competition). To modify an adjective like hullu (crazy), you need the adverb täysin (completely/totally).
Why isn't hullu in the partitive case here?
In Finnish, the adjective describing the subject stays in the basic nominative case if the subject is a singular, countable thing (like kilpailu). You would only use the partitive for the adjective if the subject was an uncountable mass noun, like water or coffee.
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