Word
Budjetti oli kohtuullinen, ennen kuin lisäsimme uusia ominaisuuksia.
Meaning
The budget was reasonable before we added new features.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Budjetti oli kohtuullinen, ennen kuin lisäsimme uusia ominaisuuksia.
olla
to be
uusi
new
budjetti
budget
lisätä
to add
Questions & Answers about Budjetti oli kohtuullinen, ennen kuin lisäsimme uusia ominaisuuksia.
Since this lesson is about nähden (in relation to), could we use it here to say the budget was reasonable in relation to the features?
Yes! If you wanted to express that idea, you could drop the ennen kuin clause and say Budjetti oli kohtuullinen uusiin ominaisuuksiin nähden (The budget was reasonable in relation to the new features). Remember that nähden requires the preceding word to be in the illative case, which is why we would use uusiin ominaisuuksiin.
Why is there a comma before ennen kuin?
Why is uusia ominaisuuksia in the partitive plural rather than the accusative?
The verb lisätä (to add) typically takes a partitive object because the action usually involves adding an indefinite amount or an unspecified number of things ('some new features'). Just like you would say lisään sokeria (I add sugar), you use the partitive plural here for both the adjective and the noun.
What is the base form of ominaisuuksia and how does it change to this form?