Word
Minä taistelisin, mutta uupumus on silti liian kova.
Meaning
I would fight, but the exhaustion is still too severe.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Minä taistelisin, mutta uupumus on silti liian kova.
olla
to be
minä
I
mutta
but
kova
strong (intense, hard)
Questions & Answers about Minä taistelisin, mutta uupumus on silti liian kova.
The English translation says "still too severe". Why is the word silti used here instead of vielä?
Vielä refers to time, like when you say "I am still waiting". Silti, on the other hand, means "nevertheless" or "despite that". In this sentence, the exhaustion is "still" too severe despite the speaker's desire to fight, so it expresses a contrast rather than just a continuation in time.
Could we put silti at the beginning of the second clause, like "mutta silti uupumus on..."?
Yes, you can! However, it is extremely common and natural in Finnish to place adverbial connectors of contrast like silti (and kuitenkin) right after the verb, which is why we see mutta uupumus on silti... here.
How do we form taistelisin from the basic verb?
The dictionary form is taistella (to fight). Because it is a verb ending in two consonants plus a vowel, you find the stem by removing the final -la, giving you the stem taistel-. Then, simply add the conditional marker -isi- and the personal ending -n for "I", resulting in taistelisin (I would fight).
Doesn't kova usually mean "hard" or "loud"? Why is it translated as "severe"?