Word
Puhumme ilmiöstä, jossa muoti muuttuu kalliiksi.
Meaning
We are talking about a phenomenon in which fashion turns expensive.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Puhumme ilmiöstä, jossa muoti muuttuu kalliiksi.
kallis
expensive
puhua
to speak
muuttua
to change
joka
who / which (relative pronoun)
Questions & Answers about Puhumme ilmiöstä, jossa muoti muuttuu kalliiksi.
Why is the word for expensive in the form kalliiksi instead of just kallis?
The verb muuttua (to change, to turn into) always requires the word describing the new state to be in the Translative case (ending in -ksi). Because fashion is changing into something expensive, the base word kallis takes the Translative ending to become kalliiksi.
What is the base form of kalliiksi and how does its stem change?
The base form is the adjective kallis (expensive). Words ending in -is change their stem to -ii- before adding case endings. So, kallis drops the s, lengthens the vowel to kallii-, and then adds the Translative ending -ksi, making kalliiksi.
Why does the relative pronoun joka take the form jossa here?
The word jossa is the Inessive (in/inside) form of joka (which). Even though it refers back to ilmiöstä (which is in the Elative -stä form because of the verb puhua), a relative pronoun always takes its case from its role in its own part of the sentence. Here, the fashion becomes expensive in that phenomenon, so we use jossa (in which).
Why is ilmiö (phenomenon) in the -stä form ()?