Breakdown of Onko kaupungistuminen yhä niin nopeaa?
olla
to be
niin
so
nopea
fast (adjective)
yhä
still, yet (continuing)
Questions & Answers about Onko kaupungistuminen yhä niin nopeaa?
Why is nopeaa in the partitive case here instead of the nominative nopea?
Even though the subject kaupungistuminen (urbanization) is in the nominative case, it represents an abstract, uncountable process. In Finnish, when the subject is an abstract concept or a mass noun, the describing adjective (predicative) takes the partitive case, hence nopeaa.
How is the long word kaupungistuminen constructed from the basic word for city (kaupunki)?
It is built through a series of regular suffixes! It starts with the noun kaupunki (city). Adding the verb-forming suffix -stua (meaning "to turn into" or "to become") creates the verb kaupungistua (to urbanize). Finally, adding the -minen suffix turns that verb into the noun kaupungistuminen (the process of urbanization).
Could I use vielä instead of yhä for "still" in this sentence?
Yes, you could perfectly well say Onko kaupungistuminen vielä niin nopeaa? Both mean "still". However, yhä strongly emphasizes that an ongoing state is continuing unchanged over time, which fits a continuous process like urbanization nicely. Vielä is more common in everyday spoken Finnish, while yhä is a bit more formal or emphatic.
How would I change this sentence to mean "Will urbanization still be so fast?" using the tulla future construction from this lesson?