Breakdown of Olen innostunut tästä harjoittelusta.
tämä
this
olla
to be
innostunut
enthusiastic
harjoittelu
training, internship
Questions & Answers about Olen innostunut tästä harjoittelusta.
Why is the phrase for 'this internship' in the elative (-sta/-stä) case here?
The word innostunut (excited) has a strict rule (rection) where the thing you are excited about must be in the elative case. While English uses the preposition 'about', Finnish expresses this by adding -sta or -stä directly to the noun.
Why do both tästä and harjoittelusta get the case ending?
In Finnish, a demonstrative pronoun like tämä (this) must agree with the noun it modifies. Because the noun harjoittelu is forced into the elative case (harjoittelusta) by the adjective, the pronoun must also take the elative form, becoming tästä.
Why does tästä end with -stä but harjoittelusta ends with -sta?
This is due to vowel harmony. The root word tämä contains the front vowel ä, so it takes the front-vowel ending -stä. The word harjoittelu contains the back vowels a, o, and u, so it takes the back-vowel ending -sta.
The word innostunut looks like a past tense verb. Is it a verb or an adjective here?
It acts as an adjective here, but it is formed from the verb innostua (to get excited). It is technically a past participle (the NUT-participle), literally meaning 'having gotten excited.' Finnish frequently uses these verb forms as normal adjectives to describe feelings or states.