Onko tuhoisa pyörremyrsky pahempi kuin mikään muu?
Is a destructive tornado worse than anything else?
Breakdown of Onko tuhoisa pyörremyrsky pahempi kuin mikään muu?
olla
to be
muu
other, else
mikään
anything, nothing (with negation)
paha
bad (evil, severe)
kuin
than / like / as (also in "before …")
pyörremyrsky
tornado
tuhoisa
destructive
Questions & Answers about Onko tuhoisa pyörremyrsky pahempi kuin mikään muu?
Why is mikään used here if the sentence isn't negative?
Although mikään is most commonly used in negative sentences, it is also required in affirmative comparisons after kuin (than) to mean anything at all. It is in the nominative case here because it acts as the subject of the implied clause than anything else is.
How is the word pyörremyrsky constructed?
It is a compound of pyörre (vortex or swirl) and myrsky (storm). Literally a swirling storm, it is the standard Finnish word for a tornado.
The word pahempi is the comparative of paha. Does paha specifically imply that the storm is evil?
Not necessarily. While paha often translates to evil, it is also the standard Finnish word for bad. Its comparative pahempi simply means worse, which fits perfectly when comparing the severity of natural disasters.
Why does the sentence use muu instead of toinen for the word else?
While both can translate to other, muu is used when referring to a different kind of thing or the rest of a group (anything else), whereas toinen usually refers to another specific item or the second of two.
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