Breakdown of Tulos on yhtä satunnainen kuin sää.
olla
to be
sää
the weather
tulos
result
kuin
than / like / as (also in "before …")
Questions & Answers about Tulos on yhtä satunnainen kuin sää.
Why do we use yhtä here, and how does the yhtä ... kuin structure work?
The phrase yhtä [adjective] kuin is the standard Finnish way to express "as [adjective] as". Yhtä is the partitive form of yksi (one). You can think of the literal meaning as the result being "equally" or "to one same degree" random as the weather.
Where does the adjective satunnainen (random) come from?
It is derived from the noun sattuma (coincidence or chance), which itself comes from the verb sattua (to happen by chance). The suffix -inen turns it into an adjective describing something characterized by chance.
Why is the adjective satunnainen in the nominative case here rather than the partitive?
Because the subject tulos (result) is treated as a countable, specific entity. In "A is B" sentences, the describing adjective takes the nominative case if the subject is a countable whole. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun, the adjective would be in the partitive case.
Could I use ilma instead of sää for "weather" in this context?
Yes, in spoken Finnish, ilma (literally "air") is frequently used to mean weather. However, sää specifically means "weather" and is slightly more exact, making it a great fit for a standard, written statement like this.