Breakdown of Ostin pelkän auton ilman lisävarusteita.
auto
car
ostaa
to buy
ilman
without
lisävaruste
accessory
pelkkä
mere, nothing but
Questions & Answers about Ostin pelkän auton ilman lisävarusteita.
The translation says "just the car". Could I use vain instead of pelkän here?
Yes, you could say Ostin vain auton. Vain is an adverb meaning "only" or "just", so it never changes form. Pelkkä (here in its genitive-accusative form pelkän) is an adjective meaning "mere" or "nothing but". As an adjective, it must agree with the case of the noun it modifies (auton).
Why do pelkän and auton end in -n?
They are in the genitive-like accusative case. In Finnish, when you do an action to a whole, single item (a total object), the object takes this -n ending. Because you completed the purchase of one entire car, auto becomes auton, and its adjective pelkkä matches it to become pelkän.
Why is lisävarusteita in the partitive case?
The word ilman (without) is a preposition that always forces the noun that follows it into the partitive case. Here, lisävarusteita is the partitive plural form of lisävaruste (accessory / extra equipment).
This lesson focuses on muu (other). How would I say "without other accessories" in this sentence?
You would use the pronoun muu. Since it acts as an adjective here, it must match the case and number of the noun it describes. Because ilman requires the partitive, and the noun is plural, you use the partitive plural form muita. The phrase becomes ilman muita lisävarusteita.
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