Breakdown of Tämä rajoitus on ehdoton sekä lapsille että teineille.
tämä
this
olla
to be
lapsi
child
että
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about Tämä rajoitus on ehdoton sekä lapsille että teineille.
The word for strict here is ehdoton. How is this word constructed?
Ehdoton comes from the noun ehto (condition) and the caritive suffix -ton (without). So it literally means conditionless or unconditional, but in the context of rules and restrictions, it translates naturally to strict or absolute.
How does the sekä ... että ... structure work here?
Sekä ... että ... is a fixed pair of conjunctions meaning both ... and ... . A key rule when using it is that the elements following each word must match grammatically. Here, both targets of the restriction are correctly put in the same case.
Why are lapsille and teineille in the allative case (the -lle ending)?
The allative case is used here to express who the restriction applies to or for. In English, we say strict for children, and in Finnish, the allative ending -lle effectively covers this relationship.