Word
Ansioiden ohella opiskelijan aktiivisuus on tärkeää.
Meaning
Alongside merits, the student's activity is important.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ansioiden ohella opiskelijan aktiivisuus on tärkeää.
olla
to be
opiskelija
student
tärkeä
important
ohella
alongside / in addition to
Questions & Answers about Ansioiden ohella opiskelijan aktiivisuus on tärkeää.
Why is ansio in the plural genitive form ansioiden before ohella?
The word ohella is a postposition meaning "alongside" or "in addition to". Like most Finnish postpositions, it requires the word that precedes it to be in the genitive case. Since the sentence talks about "merits" in the plural, the noun ansio takes the plural genitive form ansioiden.
Could I use ohella to say I am standing physically "alongside" a car?
You usually wouldn't. While ohella originally relates to the side of something, at this level it is almost exclusively used in an abstract sense to mean "in addition to" or "besides". For a physical location next to something, you would use a postposition like vieressä.
Why is the adjective tärkeää in the partitive case instead of the nominative tärkeä?
The subject of the sentence is aktiivisuus (activity). Because this is an abstract, uncountable concept, the predicative adjective describing it must be in the partitive case. If the subject were a countable, concrete noun like kirja (book), the adjective would be in the nominative: kirja on tärkeä.
How is the abstract noun aktiivisuus formed?