Questions & Answers about Porkkana on oranssi vihannes.
Why are both porkkana and vihannes in the nominative case instead of the partitive?
When you classify or define a countable noun in Finnish, you use the nominative case for both the subject (porkkana) and the complement (vihannes). You only use the partitive for the complement if the subject is an uncountable mass noun, like in vesi on märkää (water is wet).
Does the word oranssi mean both the color and the fruit 'orange'?
No, they are different words in Finnish. Oranssi is strictly the word for the color. The noun for the fruit is appelsiini.
How does the noun vihannes behave when you need to add case endings?
Vihannes belongs to a specific group of words ending in -es. When you add most endings, the stem changes to -ekse-. For example, the genitive is vihanneksen and the partitive plural is vihanneksia. The partitive singular is an exception to the stem change and becomes vihannesta.
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