Breakdown of Tästä opiskelijasta tulee kokoaikainen ohjelmoija.
tämä
this
opiskelija
student
tulla
to become
kokoaikainen
full-time
ohjelmoija
programmer
Questions & Answers about Tästä opiskelijasta tulee kokoaikainen ohjelmoija.
Why do we say Tästä opiskelijasta (from this student) instead of using the basic nominative Tämä opiskelija?
This sentence uses the specific transformation construction you are learning in this lesson. When someone or something turns into a profession or a new state, Finnish expresses it as 'From X comes Y'. Because of this, the original person (this student) is put into the elative case (-sta), which literally translates to 'out of'.
Why is the result, kokoaikainen ohjelmoija, in the nominative case here? Doesn't becoming something usually require the translative case (-ksi)?
That is a very common B1 mix-up! If you start with a normal nominative subject, you do use the translative for the result (for example, Hän tulee iloiseksi meaning 'He becomes happy'). However, when you use the 'From X comes Y' structure with the elative case (Tästä opiskelijasta), the grammatical rule changes and the result must be in the nominative case.
If the sentence were about multiple students becoming programmers, would the verb tulee become plural?
No, the verb in this specific elative construction is always frozen in the third-person singular (tulee). Even if you were to say 'These students will become programmers' (Näistä opiskelijoista tulee ohjelmoijia), the verb remains exactly the same.
How is the adjective kokoaikainen formed?
It is a compound word that combines koko (whole or full) and aika (time). By adding the very common adjective suffix -inen to the end, the phrase turns into the adjective 'full-time'.
What is the root of the word ohjelmoija (programmer)?
It stems from the noun ohjelma (program). That noun turns into the verb ohjelmoida (to program). By taking the stem of that verb and adding the -ja suffix, which denotes a doer of an action, you get ohjelmoija (programmer).
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