Breakdown of Tuo normaalihinta on tietysti moninkertainen.
olla
to be
tuo
that
tietysti
of course
normaalihinta
the normal price
moninkertainen
multiple
Questions & Answers about Tuo normaalihinta on tietysti moninkertainen.
How is moninkertainen formed, and what does the suffix do?
It combines moni (many) + the genitive -n + the suffix -kertainen (-fold / times). The suffix -nkertainen creates multiplicative adjectives. So moninkertainen literally means 'many-fold' or 'multiple times as much'.
There is no word for 'higher' in the Finnish sentence. How do we get 'many times higher' in the English translation?
In English, we usually add an adjective like 'higher', 'larger', or 'more' after 'many times' to make it sound natural. Finnish doesn't need this. The multiplicative adjective moninkertainen used with a word like hinta (price) inherently implies the price is multiplied, so the concept of 'higher' is already built into the context.
Is there a difference between using tietysti and tietenkin for 'of course'?
They are almost completely interchangeable. Tietysti comes from the adjective tietty (certain/known) plus the adverb ending -sti. Tietenkin is formed from the instructive case of tietää (to know) plus the particle -kin (also/even). You could easily use tietenkin in this sentence without changing the meaning.
Why is the adjective moninkertainen in the nominative case and not the partitive?
This is a predicative sentence (A is B). The subject, normaalihinta (normal price), is a singular, countable noun being treated as a whole entity here. Therefore, the adjective describing it must agree and take the nominative case. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun, the partitive would be used.
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