Breakdown of Hänen seuransa on aina hauskaa.
olla
to be
hän
he / she
aina
always
hauska
fun
seura
company (being with someone)
Questions & Answers about Hänen seuransa on aina hauskaa.
Since this lesson is about the comitative case, is seuransa in the comitative?
No, seuransa is just the nominative word seura (company) plus the possessive suffix -nsa (his/her). The comitative case always uses the marker -ine-. If it were comitative, it would be seuroineen, meaning along with his/her company.
Why do we need the -nsa ending on seuransa if we already have Hänen at the start of the sentence?
In standard Finnish, when you use a third-person genitive pronoun like hänen (his/her) or heidän (their), the noun that follows must also take a possessive suffix. You need both pieces to be grammatically correct.
Why is hauskaa in the partitive case here instead of the nominative hauska?
Because seura (company) is being treated as an abstract, uncountable concept here. When an olla (to be) sentence describes an abstract or uncountable noun, the describing adjective takes the partitive case.
Can I use seura to talk about a business company?
No, seura only means company in the sense of being with someone, or a social club. If you want to talk about a business company, you should use words like yritys or yhtiö.
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