Breakdown of Vedokset ovat pieniä, joten suurennan ne vasta myöhemmin.
olla
to be
ne
they / those (non-human) / they (of people)
pieni
small
joten
so, therefore
myöhemmin
later
vasta
not until, only just
suurentaa
to enlarge
vedos
print
Questions & Answers about Vedokset ovat pieniä, joten suurennan ne vasta myöhemmin.
Why does this sentence use vasta instead of vain for the word 'only'?
In Finnish, vasta is used when 'only' relates to time or a delay, meaning 'not until' or 'as late as'. If you used vain, it would mean 'only' in a restrictive sense (as in, doing nothing else but enlarging), which misses the temporal meaning of pushing the action to a later time.
How does vasta combine with myöhemmin here?
The word myöhemmin is the comparative adverb form of myöhään (late). When paired together, the phrase vasta myöhemmin translates to 'not until later'. It is a common chunk that emphasizes the action of enlarging is being deliberately delayed.
Why is the object pronoun ne (them) instead of the partitive niitä?
The verb suurentaa here expresses an action that will be completely finished on the entire group of prints, so it requires a total object. For plural pronouns, the total object looks identical to the nominative plural form (ne). If you used niitä, it would imply you are only enlarging some of the prints, or that the process is ongoing and incomplete.
How is the verb suurennan (I enlarge) formed?
It is a factitive verb built from the adjective suuri (large). By adding the suffix -ntaa to the stem, Finnish creates suurentaa, which literally means 'to make large'. The form suurennan is the first-person singular, which undergoes consonant gradation where the 'nt' weakens to 'nn'.
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