Word
Nämä pojat ovat kaksoset, mutta heillä on täysin erilainen luonne.
Meaning
These boys are twins, but they have a completely different character.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Nämä pojat ovat kaksoset, mutta heillä on täysin erilainen luonne.
olla
to be
mutta
but
he
they
nämä
these
Questions & Answers about Nämä pojat ovat kaksoset, mutta heillä on täysin erilainen luonne.
How could we rewrite the second half of this sentence to use this lesson's grammar, toinen ... toinen (one ... the other)?
To contrast the twins directly using the "to have" structure, you must put both pronouns in the adessive case. You could say: ...mutta toisella on tällainen luonne ja toisella täysin erilainen (but one has this kind of character, and the other has a completely different one).
Why is erilainen luonne (different character) in the singular when the sentence is about two boys?
In Finnish, it is very common to use the singular when multiple people each possess one of the same thing (such as a personality, a face, or a life). While you could technically use the plural erilaiset luonteet, the singular sounds completely natural here to express that each boy has his own character.
Why does the word for "completely" end in -in (täysin)?
The -in suffix is the standard way to turn an adjective into an adverb in Finnish, much like "-ly" in English. Here, it changes the adjective täysi (full) into the adverb täysin (fully or completely) so it can modify the adjective erilainen.
Why is kaksoset in the nominative plural instead of the partitive plural?