Breakdown of Tämä uusi yksityiskohta lisää epäilystä.
tämä
this
uusi
new
lisätä
to add
yksityiskohta
detail
epäilys
suspicion
Questions & Answers about Tämä uusi yksityiskohta lisää epäilystä.
Does epäilys have a direct opposite formed by dropping the epä- prefix?
Unlike many words in this lesson where you can just drop the epä- to get the positive opposite (like epälooginen -> looginen), epäilys (suspicion/doubt) works a bit differently. It comes from the verb epäillä (to doubt). The negative prefix epä- is permanently baked into the root of this verb, meaning there is no standalone positive word "ilys".
Why is epäilys in the partitive case (epäilystä)?
It is acting as the object of the verb lisätä (to increase / to add). When you are increasing or adding an uncountable, abstract concept like "suspicion", the object must take the partitive case.
Is lisää the word for "more" in this sentence?
Not here! Although lisää very often translates to "more" (e.g., Saisinko lisää kahvia? - Could I have more coffee?), in this sentence it is actually the verb lisätä (to increase / to add) conjugated in the third-person singular present tense: se lisää (it increases).
Yksityiskohta is quite a long word. How is it built?
It's a compound noun made of two parts: yksityis- (a form of yksityinen, meaning "private" or "individual") and kohta (meaning "point", "place", or "spot"). Together, an "individual point" becomes the Finnish word for "detail".
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