Breakdown of Ansioiden ohella opiskelijan aktiivisuus on tärkeää.
olla
to be
opiskelija
student
tärkeä
important
ohella
alongside / in addition to
ansio
the merit
aktiivisuus
the activity / the activeness
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?
It is derived from the adjective aktiivinen (active). To turn adjectives into abstract nouns (similar to adding "-ity" or "-ness" in English), Finnish adds the suffix -uus or -yys. For words ending in -nen, that ending is typically replaced before adding the suffix, resulting in aktiivisuus.
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