Breakdown of Hiilihydraattien tarve on korkeintaan sata grammaa päivässä.
olla
to be
päivä
day
sata
one hundred
korkeintaan
at most
gramma
gram
hiilihydraatti
carbohydrate
tarve
need
Questions & Answers about Hiilihydraattien tarve on korkeintaan sata grammaa päivässä.
Could I use enintään instead of korkeintaan in this sentence?
Yes, they are almost entirely interchangeable in this context. Both mean "at most" or "maximum". Korkeintaan is formed from korkea (high) and literally means "at its highest", while enintään comes from enin (most).
Why is "need for carbohydrates" translated using the genitive plural hiilihydraattien?
In Finnish, expressing the need for something is most commonly done by putting that thing in the genitive case before the word tarve, literally translating to "carbohydrates' need". While you might occasionally hear the allative case used for this, the genitive structure seen here is the most natural.
Why is sata in the nominative case while grammaa is in the partitive?
In this sentence, the phrase sata grammaa acts as the predicative. The base number stays in the nominative case (sata), but any number greater than one always forces the noun immediately following it into the partitive singular, which gives us grammaa.
Why does the sentence use the inessive case päivässä to say "a day"?
To express frequencies or rates such as "per day" or "a day", Finnish uses the inessive case, which translates literally to "in a day". You can apply this same pattern to other time periods, such as viikossa for "a week" or kuukaudessa for "a month".
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