Word
Kokoaikainen yrittäjä työskentelee paljon.
Meaning
A full-time entrepreneur works a lot.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kokoaikainen yrittäjä työskentelee paljon.
paljon
a lot
työskennellä
to work
yrittäjä
entrepreneur
kokoaikainen
full-time
Questions & Answers about Kokoaikainen yrittäjä työskentelee paljon.
Where does the word yrittäjä (entrepreneur) come from?
It comes from the verb yrittää, which means "to try" or "to attempt." The suffix -jä is added to the verb stem to describe the person doing the action. Literally, an entrepreneur in Finnish is a "tryer."
Why use työskentelee here instead of tekee töitä?
Both are perfectly correct and mean "works," but työskennellä (the infinitive form of työskentelee) is a single verb that often sounds a bit more formal or professional. Tehdä töitä (to do jobs or work) is very common in spoken language, but you can usually use them interchangeably at this level.
How is the adjective kokoaikainen (full-time) built?
It combines koko (whole) and aika (time) with the adjective-forming suffix -inen. When you want to use a noun combination like kokoaika to describe another word (like yrittäjä), attaching -inen turns it into a proper adjective.
How would you use this lesson's "tulla" transformation to say "I become a full-time entrepreneur"?
You would put the pronoun in the Elative case (minusta), use the third-person singular verb tulee, and leave the new role in the Nominative case: Minusta tulee kokoaikainen yrittäjä. This literally translates as "Out of me comes a full-time entrepreneur."