Questions & Answers about Tekeekö luonto sinut yhtä levolliseksi kuin minut?
Why does levollinen (peaceful) change to the translative case levolliseksi?
This is the core rule for saying 'to make someone [adjective]'. When the verb tehdä causes a change in state or mood, the resulting state must be in the translative case (-ksi). It functions as if nature is making you 'into' a peaceful state.
Why are we using sinut and minut instead of the partitive forms sinua and minua?
Both are the direct objects of the verb tehdä. When an action results in a completed change of state (making you entirely peaceful), Finnish uses the total object. For personal pronouns like 'I' and 'you', the total object takes this special -t ending.
How do you form the 'as... as' comparison here?
You use the pairing yhtä ... kuin. The word yhtä means 'equally' and is placed before the adjective, while kuin works like 'as' or 'than' to introduce the comparison. So yhtä levolliseksi kuin literally translates to 'equally into peaceful as'.
Why is the final word minut instead of just the basic form minä?
The word kuin connects two parallel ideas. The full implied thought is '...as nature makes me' (...kuin luonto tekee minut). Because 'me' is the object being made peaceful in the second half of the sentence, it has to match the object case of sinut from the first half.