Breakdown of Jälleennäkeminen oli todella tunteikas.
olla
to be
todella
really (very, intensifier)
tunteikas
emotional
jälleennäkeminen
the reunion
Questions & Answers about Jälleennäkeminen oli todella tunteikas.
How is the compound word jälleennäkeminen formed?
It is made by combining the adverb jälleen (again) with the verbal noun näkeminen (seeing). Literally meaning "again-seeing", it is the standard Finnish word for a "reunion" between people.
The word for "emotional" is tunteikas. How does the -kas suffix work here?
The suffix -kas (or -käs) is attached to a noun stem to create an adjective meaning "having a lot of" something. Here, it is derived from tunne (emotion) to create tunteikas (full of emotion). You have likely seen this suffix before in words like asiakas (customer, from asia) or voimakas (strong, from voima).
Why is the adjective tunteikas in the nominative case here rather than the partitive?
This is a basic "A is B" predicative sentence. Because the subject jälleennäkeminen represents a countable, specific event in this context rather than an uncountable mass noun, it takes the nominative case. The predicative adjective tunteikas simply agrees with the subject, so it also stays in the nominative singular.
Could todella be replaced with tosi in this sentence?
Yes, especially in spoken Finnish, you will very often hear tosi tunteikas instead of todella tunteikas. Both mean "really emotional", but todella is the grammatically standard adverb form, while tosi (literally "true") is widely used as an intensifier in everyday speech.