Breakdown of Ahdistus on raskas taakka.
olla
to be
raskas
heavy (also burdensome, e.g. work)
ahdistus
the anxiety
taakka
the burden
Questions & Answers about Ahdistus on raskas taakka.
How would I apply this lesson's rule to say 'My anxiety is a heavy burden'?
You would say Ahdistukseni on raskas taakka. You add the first-person possessive suffix -ni to the noun. Because of the pro-drop rule taught in this lesson, you can completely drop the pronoun minun (my) since the suffix already tells us whose anxiety it is.
How is the word ahdistus formed?
It is derived from the verb ahdistaa (to distress / to cause anxiety). Adding the noun-forming suffix -us turns the verb into the noun ahdistus (anxiety).
Why is raskas taakka in the basic nominative case rather than the partitive?
This is a standard 'A is B' describing sentence. Because taakka (burden) is a complete, countable noun in the singular, the describing words must be in the basic nominative case. If it were an uncountable mass noun, you would use the partitive.