Word
Tämä logiikka on monimutkainen ymmärtää.
Meaning
This logic is complex to understand.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tämä logiikka on monimutkainen ymmärtää.
tämä
this
olla
to be
ymmärtää
to understand
logiikka
logic
Questions & Answers about Tämä logiikka on monimutkainen ymmärtää.
Why is the adjective monimutkainen in the nominative case here instead of the partitive monimutkaista?
Because it describes the specific subject Tämä logiikka. In Finnish evaluative structures, if you make the thing you are evaluating the grammatical subject, the adjective must agree with it. Since Tämä logiikka is nominative, monimutkainen is also nominative.
How would this sentence change if we used the 'It is complex to...' structure instead?
You would say On monimutkaista ymmärtää tätä logiikkaa. In this version, there is no grammatical subject, so the adjective defaults to the partitive monimutkaista. The phrase tämä logiikka moves to the end and becomes the partitive object tätä logiikkaa because it is the target of the verb ymmärtää.
What exactly is the grammatical role of ymmärtää in this sentence?
It is the first infinitive (the dictionary form), and here it acts as an extension of the adjective monimutkainen. The structure 'Subject + olla + Adjective + 1st Infinitive' is a very common way to say that a specific thing is easy, hard, fun, or complex to do.
What is the literal meaning behind the word monimutkainen?
It is a compound of moni (many) and mutka (bend, curve, or corner), with the common adjective ending -inen. So, something complex is literally 'many-curved' or full of twists and turns in Finnish.