Breakdown of Tämä taloyhtiö on ylellinen uusine porealtaineen ja kauniine merinäköaloineen.
tämä
this
olla
to be
ja
and
uusi
new
kaunis
beautiful
ylellinen
luxurious
poreallas
hot tub
merinäköala
sea view
taloyhtiö
housing company
Questions & Answers about Tämä taloyhtiö on ylellinen uusine porealtaineen ja kauniine merinäköaloineen.
Why do the adjectives uusine and kauniine lack the -en ending found on the nouns?
In the comitative case, adjectives must agree with the noun by taking the -ine ending, but they never take a possessive suffix. The possessive suffix (here, -en for 'its') is only attached to the head noun. Therefore, uusine porealtaineen is correct, while uusineen porealtaineen would be grammatically incorrect.
How is the word porealtaineen built from the dictionary form poreallas?
The comitative case is always built using the plural stem of the word. For poreallas (jacuzzi), the plural stem is porealtai-. To this stem, we add the comitative case marker -ne-, and finally the third-person possessive suffix -en, creating porealtaineen.
Both porealtaineen and merinäköaloineen are translated as plural in English. Does the Finnish comitative case look different if there is only one jacuzzi?
No. A quirky feature of the comitative case is that it is always formed using the plural stem, regardless of whether the meaning is singular or plural. The phrase uusine porealtaineen can mean 'with its new jacuzzi' or 'with its new jacuzzis'. You have to rely entirely on context to determine the intended number.
Why do the nouns end in -en rather than -nsa or -nsä for the third-person possessive suffix?
When a word ends in a short vowel, the third-person possessive suffix can be formed either by lengthening that vowel and adding -n (which creates -en after the comitative -ne-) or by adding -nsa/-nsä. While porealtaineensa is technically possible, the shorter -en suffix is overwhelmingly preferred by native speakers when using the comitative case.
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