Breakdown of Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto.
tämä
this
olla
to be
urheilu
sports
suuri
large, great
voitto
victory
elektroninen
electronic
Questions & Answers about Tämä on elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto.
Why are both elektronisen and urheilun in the genitive case?
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.
We are currently learning the formal "let us" command (-kaamme / -käämme). How would we use it here to say "Let us achieve the greatest victory of electronic sports!"?
You could use the verb saavuttaa (to achieve). The formal 1st person plural imperative is formed by adding -kaamme to the verb's infinitive stem, giving us saavuttakaamme. The sentence becomes: Saavuttakaamme elektronisen urheilun suurin voitto!
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