Breakdown of Paras dinosaurus on ehkä kasvinsyöjä.
olla
to be
ehkä
maybe, perhaps
paras
best
dinosaurus
dinosaur
kasvinsyöjä
herbivore
Questions & Answers about Paras dinosaurus on ehkä kasvinsyöjä.
Why is the word paras used here instead of a form of hyvä?
Paras means "best" and is the completely irregular superlative form of the adjective hyvä (good). Just like in English (good, better, best), Finnish uses hyvä, parempi, and paras.
If I wanted to talk about the best dinosaurs in the plural, how does paras change?
To make it plural, paras changes to parhaat. The hidden stem of paras is parhaa-, which you must use when adding any grammatical endings. So "the best dinosaurs" would be parhaat dinosaurukset.
How exactly is the compound word kasvinsyöjä built?
Why is there no Finnish word for "a" before kasvinsyöjä?
Finnish does not have indefinite or definite articles like "a", "an", or "the". You simply translate the noun with or without an article based on what makes the most sense in the English context.
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