Word
Opiskelijan on tärkeä muistaa, että sopeutuminen vaatii uuden tulkinnan.
Meaning
It is important for the student to remember that adaptation requires a new interpretation.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Opiskelijan on tärkeä muistaa, että sopeutuminen vaatii uuden tulkinnan.
olla
to be
uusi
new
opiskelija
student
muistaa
to remember
Questions & Answers about Opiskelijan on tärkeä muistaa, että sopeutuminen vaatii uuden tulkinnan.
Why do we use the genitive opiskelijan instead of a word like opiskelijalle?
This sentence uses the genitive experiencer structure. To say that it is a certain way for someone to do an action, Finnish puts the person experiencing it in the genitive case (opiskelijan) followed by on, the adjective, and the first infinitive (muistaa). Translating 'for the student' directly as opiskelijalle would sound unnatural here.
Could I use the partitive tärkeää instead of the nominative tärkeä in this sentence?
Yes, in spoken and everyday Finnish, using the partitive tärkeää in this structure is extremely common and natural. However, traditional grammar rules state that when the true subject of the sentence is an infinitive action (muistaa), the adjective evaluating it should be in the nominative (tärkeä). You will often see this formal rule applied in written texts and standard Finnish.
Why does vaatii take the genitive-looking accusative object uuden tulkinnan rather than the partitive?
The verb vaatia (to require) typically takes a total object when it implies a complete result or a singular, countable thing like an interpretation. Because the subordinate clause has a regular nominative subject (sopeutuminen), the total object takes the standard -n ending. If the sentence required an uncountable mass noun, the partitive would be used instead.
How is the word sopeutuminen formed and what is its role here?