Breakdown of Tämä perinne alkoi sodanjälkeisenä aikakautena.
tämä
this
alkaa
to start
sodanjälkeinen
post-war
aikakausi
the era
perinne
tradition
Questions & Answers about Tämä perinne alkoi sodanjälkeisenä aikakautena.
Why are sodanjälkeisenä and aikakautena in the essive case here?
The essive case (ending in -na or -nä) is often used to express a specific point or period in time. In this sentence, it translates to 'in the... era'. Both the adjective sodanjälkeisenä and the noun aikakautena must be in the essive case to agree with each other.
How is the adjective sodanjälkeinen constructed?
It is a compound word. It combines sodan (the genitive form of sota, meaning 'of the war') and jälkeinen (an adjective meaning 'subsequent' or 'after'). Together they mean 'post-war', and in this sentence the whole compound takes the essive ending -nä.
What happens to the stem of aikakausi to make it aikakautena?
The base noun is aikakausi (time period or era). Finnish words ending in -si (like vuosi or vesi) usually change that -si to -te- when you add most case endings. Therefore, the end of the word changes to the stem -kaute- before adding the essive ending -na.
Since the current lesson covers the relative pronoun joka in the essive case, how would we say 'the post-war era, during which...'?
To refer back to a time period using 'during which', you use the essive form of the relative pronoun joka, which is jona. You could expand this sentence as: ...sodanjälkeisenä aikakautena, jona... (the post-war era, during which...).
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