Breakdown of Elämme aikaa, jolloin arvomaailma muuttuu nopeasti, perinteet taas jäävät historiaan.
nopeasti
fast
aika
time (concept, duration)
jäädä
to stay
historia
history
muuttua
to change
elää
to live, to be alive
jolloin
when / at which time (relative)
perinne
tradition
taas
whereas / on the other hand (by contrast)
arvomaailma
the value system
Questions & Answers about Elämme aikaa, jolloin arvomaailma muuttuu nopeasti, perinteet taas jäävät historiaan.
Why is taas placed right after perinteet instead of at the start of the clause?
When taas is used to mean "whereas" or "on the other hand" to contrast two things, it acts almost like an attached particle. It is placed immediately after the topic of the new clause. Here, it follows perinteet to directly contrast the traditions with the value system (arvomaailma) mentioned just before.
Could I use kun instead of jolloin for "when" in this sentence?
No, because they serve different grammatical roles. While kun is a conjunction used to link events happening at the same time, jolloin is a relative adverb that refers directly back to a specific time-related noun in the main clause. Here, jolloin refers back to aikaa (a time), literally meaning "during which time".
The English translation says "remain in history", so why does the Finnish sentence use the illative case historiaan (into history)?
Why is aikaa in the partitive case?
The verb elää (to live) takes the partitive case for its object here because living through an era is an ongoing, continuous process. You are living a period of time that does not have a defined, completed endpoint in this context.
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