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Algoritmi on tylsä kehittää ja testata.

Algoritmi on tylsä kehittää ja testata.
An algorithm is boring to develop and test.
From Lesson 275:Evaluating actions (on helppo oppia)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Algoritmi on tylsä kehittää ja testata.

Why is algoritmi in the nominative case here, even though it is the thing being developed?
In this "olla + adjective + infinitive" structure, the thing being acted upon acts as the grammatical subject of the sentence. Because it is the subject and refers to a complete, specific algorithm, it takes the nominative case.
If we were talking about multiple algorithms, how would this sentence change?
You would change the subject to plural (Algoritmit), the verb to plural (ovat), and the adjective to the plural partitive (tylsiä). The sentence would become: Algoritmit ovat tylsiä kehittää ja testata.
Why do we use the basic dictionary form (1st infinitive) for kehittää and testata?
Sentences evaluating an action (using olla + adjective) always connect to the 1st infinitive. It matches the English "to do" form closely, like saying "is boring to develop". You don't need any of the more complex infinitive cases here.
Could I reword this sentence to match the English "It is boring to develop..." word order?
Yes! You can flip the structure: On tylsää kehittää ja testata algoritmia. Notice that in this version, the adjective becomes partitive (tylsää) because there is no specific subject word before it, and algoritmia also becomes partitive because it is now acting as a standard object after the verbs.

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