Breakdown of Raekuuro on kylmempi kuin mikään muu kesällä.
olla
to be
kylmä
cold
kesä
summer
muu
other, else
mikään
anything, nothing (with negation)
kuin
than / like / as (also in "before …")
raekuuro
hailstorm
Questions & Answers about Raekuuro on kylmempi kuin mikään muu kesällä.
Why do we use the negative word mikään here when the sentence is positive?
This is the core of this lesson! While mikään normally requires a negative verb, it is also used in affirmative sentences when making extreme comparisons with kuin (than). Here, it translates to 'anything' rather than using a standard affirmative pronoun like jokin (something).
Why is it mikään muu in the nominative case instead of the partitive mitään muuta?
When you use kuin (than) in a comparison, the noun phrase following it usually matches the case of the subject being compared. Since the subject raekuuro is nominative, mikään muu must also be nominative.
Why does kesällä (in summer) use the adessive case instead of the inessive?
As a quick refresher: Finnish uses the adessive case (-lla / -llä) for seasons, times of day, and days of the week to express 'during' that time. This is why we say kesällä instead of kesässä.
What does the word raekuuro consist of?
It is a compound of rae (hailstone, grain, or bead) and kuuro (a sudden shower of precipitation). You can apply this to other weather terms, such as lumikuuro (snow shower) or sadekuuro (rain shower).
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