Breakdown of Väkijoukko on hieman pienempi tänään.
olla
to be
pieni
small
tänään
today
väkijoukko
crowd (group of people)
hieman
slightly, a tad
Questions & Answers about Väkijoukko on hieman pienempi tänään.
What is the literal meaning of väkijoukko?
It is a compound word made of väki (people or folk) and joukko (group or set). Together, it literally means a group of people, which is the standard Finnish term for a crowd.
Why use hieman here instead of vähän?
Both words mean slightly or a little, and they are completely interchangeable in this context. Hieman sounds just a bit more formal and is often preferred in written Finnish, while vähän is extremely common in spoken everyday language.
How is the comparative pienempi formed from pieni?
To form the comparative of an adjective, you take its inflectional stem and add the suffix -mpi. The stem of pieni (small) is piene-, so adding the suffix gives us pienempi (smaller).
Could I put tänään at the beginning of the sentence instead?
Yes, you can say Tänään väkijoukko on hieman pienempi. Moving tänään to the front is grammatically correct and simply places a bit more emphasis on the word today compared to previous days.
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