Learn Finnish: Ilmeisesti tämä asuste on nyt todella suosittu. - Apparently, this accessory is now really popular.

Ilmeisesti is a sentence-modifying adverb. In Finnish, adverbs that express the speaker's attitude or perspective on the whole statement usually go at the very beginning. This immediately sets the tone, showing that the speaker is deducing something, before the main information is delivered.

Could I move ilmeisesti to another part of the sentence, like after the verb?

Yes, you could say Tämä asuste on ilmeisesti nyt todella suosittu, but the emphasis shifts slightly. Placing it mid-sentence makes it feel a bit more like a softer observation, whereas putting it at the beginning strongly frames the entire thought as a deduction.

Is there a difference between ilmeisesti and nähtävästi here?

Both translate to apparently or evidently and are interchangeable in this sentence. However, nähtävästi highlights visual evidence (from nähdä, to see), while ilmeisesti (from ilmeinen, obvious) implies a conclusion based on any kind of context, reading, or general reasoning.

Why is the adjective suosittu in the nominative case rather than the partitive?

Because the subject asuste (accessory) is a countable, concrete noun in the singular. In 'A is B' sentences, the describing adjective takes the nominative case when the subject is a single, indivisible entity. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun, the adjective would be in the partitive.