Breakdown of Tämä tuore ainesosa on todella kallis.
tämä
this
olla
to be
kallis
expensive
tuore
fresh
todella
really (very, intensifier)
ainesosa
the ingredient
Questions & Answers about Tämä tuore ainesosa on todella kallis.
The word ainesosa is a compound word. What are its parts?
It is made of aines (material or substance) and osa (part). As a compound word, it inflects based on its final word, so you only need to apply endings to osa when using it in different cases.
How would I use this lesson's grammar to say 'one of the most expensive ingredients'?
You would use yksi followed by the elative plural (-ista/-istä endings) for both the superlative adjective and the noun. The superlative of kallis is kallein, and its elative plural is kalleimmista. The elative plural of ainesosa is ainesosista. Put together, it becomes yksi kalleimmista ainesosista.
Both tuore and kallis are in their basic nominative forms here. How do their stems change when inflected?
They belong to two common word types that learners often need to review. Words ending in -e like tuore double their final vowel in the stem (becoming tuoree-), so the partitive is tuoretta and the genitive is tuoreen. Words ending in -is like kallis change to -ii- in the stem (becoming kallii-), making the partitive kallista and the genitive kalliin.
Could I use tosi instead of todella in this sentence?
Yes, tosi kallis means the exact same thing as todella kallis. The word tosi is just slightly more colloquial, making it very common in spoken Finnish, while todella works perfectly in both spoken and written contexts.
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