Learn Finnish: Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto. - This is the greatest victory of electronic sports.

Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto.

This is the greatest victory of electronic sports.

Breakdown of Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto.

Questions & Answers about Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto.

Why are both elektronisen and urheilun in the genitive case?

They translate to "of electronic sports". In Finnish, adjectives modifying a noun must agree with that noun in case. Because the victory belongs to the sport, the noun urheilu takes the genitive ending -n, and the adjective elektroninen must do exactly the same.

The dictionary form for "great" is suuri. How does the superlative suurin form here?

The nominative superlative suffix is -in. You attach it to the inflecting stem of the adjective, which for suuri is suure-. When you add -in to suure-, the final e drops out, resulting in suurin (greatest).

Could we put the genitive phrase after the noun, as in "Tämä on suurin voitto elektronisen urheilun"?

No, that word order sounds very unnatural in Finnish. A genitive modifier (like elektronisen urheilun) practically always comes directly before the noun phrase it modifies (suurin voitto).

Is elektroninen urheilu the only way to say "esports" in Finnish?

While elektroninen urheilu is the official translation often used in journalism or formal contexts, everyday Finnish heavily uses the compound word e-urheilu or simply the English loanword esports.