Terveellinen ravinto sisältää ainakin vähän rasvaa.
Healthy nutrition contains at least a little fat.
Breakdown of Terveellinen ravinto sisältää ainakin vähän rasvaa.
vähän
a little
sisältää
to include
ainakin
at least
terveellinen
healthy
rasva
fat
ravinto
nutrition
Questions & Answers about Terveellinen ravinto sisältää ainakin vähän rasvaa.
Could I use vähintään instead of ainakin here, since they both mean 'at least'?
While both mean 'at least', ainakin is the better choice here. Vähintään is strictly used for measurable, exact numerical quantities (like vähintään kaksi grammaa - at least two grams). Because vähän (a little) is an abstract, non-numerical amount, ainakin sounds much more natural.
Is rasvaa in the partitive case because of the verb sisältää or because of the word vähän?
In this specific sentence, it is dictated by vähän. The quantifier vähän (a little) always requires the word it measures to be in the partitive case. However, even if you removed the word vähän, the verb sisältää (to contain) would take a partitive object here anyway, because rasva (fat) is an uncountable mass noun.
Why is the word terveellinen used for 'healthy' here instead of terve?
Terve describes someone or something that is physically well and not sick (like a healthy person or animal). Terveellinen means 'health-promoting' or 'good for your health'. Since food itself cannot be sick or well, but it promotes good health, you must use terveellinen.
If I wanted to say 'Healthy nutrition contains at most a little fat', which scalar adverb from this lesson would I use?
You would replace ainakin with korkeintaan (at most / maximum). The sentence would become: Terveellinen ravinto sisältää korkeintaan vähän rasvaa.
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