Breakdown of Olemme kyllästyneitä tähän huonompaan juoneen.
tämä
this
olla
to be
huono
bad
juoni
plot
kyllästynyt
fed up
Questions & Answers about Olemme kyllästyneitä tähän huonompaan juoneen.
Why is the phrase for 'this worse plot' in the illative case (tähän huonompaan juoneen)?
Adjectives describing emotional saturation, fatigue, or frustration (like kyllästynyt, väsynyt, and turhautunut) strongly govern the illative case. While in English you are fed up 'with' something, in Finnish you are fed up 'into' it. This means every word in the phrase 'tämä huonompi juoni' must decline into the illative.
Why is the adjective kyllästynyt in the form kyllästyneitä here?
Because the subject is plural (olemme, 'we are'). When an adjective acts as a predicative (following the verb to describe the subject), it must be in the plural partitive if the subject is plural. The base form kyllästynyt changes to the plural stem kyllästynei- and takes the partitive suffix -tä.
How do we get the form huonompaan from the basic word for 'bad' (huono)?
It is the illative form of huonompi (worse), the comparative of huono. When declining comparative adjectives ending in -mpi, the stem changes to -mpa- (or -mpä-). To form the illative, you double the final vowel of the stem and add -n, resulting in huonompaan.
Why does the singular word juoni (plot) become juoneen rather than juoniin?
Juoni is an older Finnish noun ending in -i. For these words, the final -i changes to an -e- when building the stem (juone-). The singular illative case doubles this final stem vowel and adds -n, resulting in juoneen. If you used juoniin, that would actually be the plural illative ('into the plots').
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