Breakdown of Asunto uusine kodinkoneineen on todella kallis.
olla
to be
uusi
new
kallis
expensive
todella
really (very, intensifier)
asunto
apartment
kodinkone
home appliance
Questions & Answers about Asunto uusine kodinkoneineen on todella kallis.
Why is the ending on the adjective uusine different from the noun kodinkoneineen?
This is the core rule of comitative agreement! Adjectives modifying a noun in the comitative case take the ending -ine, but they never take a possessive suffix. The noun itself must take both the comitative -ine and a possessive suffix, which here is the third-person -en (meaning 'its').
Does the comitative case always imply a plural meaning since it uses the plural stem?
Not necessarily. The comitative is always built on the plural stem (which is why uusi becomes uusi- and kone becomes konei- before the -ne suffix), but the meaning can be either singular or plural. kodinkoneineen can mean 'with its appliance' or 'with its appliances'. Context tells us an apartment has multiple appliances.
Is it possible to drop the -en suffix and just say kodinkoneine?
No, standard Finnish requires nouns in the comitative case to always have a possessive suffix attached to them. Because the appliances belong to the apartment (third person), you must add the suffix -en (or -nsa) to complete the word. Modifying adjectives, as seen with uusine, do not take the possessive suffix.
What is the base form of kodinkoneineen and how is it constructed?
The base word is kodinkone (home appliance). It is a compound word made of koti (home) in the genitive case (kodin) plus kone (machine).
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