Breakdown of Maistelumenu sisältää viisi pientä alkuruokaa.
pieni
small
viisi
five
sisältää
to include
maistelumenu
the tasting menu
alkuruoka
the starter
Questions & Answers about Maistelumenu sisältää viisi pientä alkuruokaa.
Wait, this lesson is about using the elative plural for groups. Why are we using the partitive singular (pientä alkuruokaa) here?
Because this sentence isn't expressing a subset (like "five OF the small starters"). It's just stating a basic quantity: "five small starters". Remember the earlier rule that numbers greater than one simply require the partitive singular. If you wanted to say "five of the small starters", you would use the elative plural: viisi pienistä alkuruoista.
Is viisi the object of the verb sisältää? If so, why isn't it in the partitive or genitive?
Yes, it is the object! When a number (other than yksi) acts as a total object in a sentence, it takes its basic form (which looks exactly like the nominative). The noun it counts still goes into the partitive singular, which is why we see viisi pientä alkuruokaa.
How is the word maistelumenu formed?
It's a compound word made of maistelu (tasting) and the loanword menu (menu). Maistelu is a noun derived from the frequentative verb maistella (to taste, to sample repeatedly or continuously).
What is the root of the verb sisältää?
The verb sisältää (to contain, to hold) is built from the root sisä- (inner, inside). You can see this same root in words like sisällä (inside) and sisään (in, into).
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