Breakdown of Tämä on yksi kaupungin arvostetuimmista annoksista.
tämä
this
olla
to be
kaupunki
city
yksi
one
Questions & Answers about Tämä on yksi kaupungin arvostetuimmista annoksista.
Why do both arvostetuimmista and annoksista end in -ista?
They are in the elative plural case, which is used to mean "out of" a group. In Finnish, the phrase "one of the..." is formed with yksi (one) followed by the elative plural. Because adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify, both the superlative adjective (arvostetuimmista) and the noun (annoksista) take the -ista ending.
How is the word arvostetuimmista formed from its base word?
The base adjective is arvostettu (esteemed/valued). Its basic superlative form ("the most esteemed") is arvostetuin. When you add plural and case endings to superlatives ending in -in, the stem changes to -immi-. Adding the elative ending -sta gives us arvostetuimmista. Notice also that the double tt in the base word weakens to a single t.
Why does kaupungin come before the superlative?
Kaupungin is in the genitive case, meaning "the city's". In Finnish, a genitive modifier like this comes right before the adjective or noun it belongs to. The structure mirrors the English "the city's most esteemed..." rather than "the most esteemed... in the city."
Doesn't annos usually mean "portion" or "dose"?