Breakdown of Toi tyyppi oli tosi ylimielinen ja töykeä mun kaverille.
olla
to be
tuo
that
minä
I
ja
and
todella
really (very, intensifier)
kaveri
mate, buddy
tyyppi
person / guy
töykeä
rude
ylimielinen
arrogant
Questions & Answers about Toi tyyppi oli tosi ylimielinen ja töykeä mun kaverille.
Why is the target of the rudeness, kaverille, in the allative case?
Adjectives describing how you act towards someone, like töykeä (rude), ylimielinen (arrogant), or ystävällinen (friendly), require the target of the behavior to be in the allative case (-lle). English prepositions fluctuate here (rude TO, angry AT, mad WITH), but Finnish consistently uses the allative for these interpersonal attitude adjectives.
Does the allative rection apply to both adjectives in this sentence?
Yes. Because both ylimielinen and töykeä share the exact same rection (requiring the allative case for the person being treated a certain way), they can comfortably share the single word kaverille at the end of the sentence.
This sentence is very colloquial. How would it be constructed in standard written Finnish (kirjakieli)?
You would change the spoken words to their standard forms: Tuo henkilö oli todella ylimielinen ja töykeä minun kaverilleni. Notice that the slang word tyyppi is replaced with a more neutral word like henkilö (person), and the possessive suffix -ni is added to the end of kaverille.
Is tosi grammatically correct here as a translation for 'really'?
In spoken and informal Finnish, using tosi as an adverb to mean 'really' or 'very' is completely natural and expected. However, in strict formal written Finnish, tosi is an adjective meaning 'true'. For formal writing, you would swap it out for todella or erittäin.
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