Breakdown of Höyrykone keksittiin kauan sitten, mutta teollistuminen alkoi todella vuonna 1760.
mutta
but
vuosi
year
alkaa
to start
kauan
for a long time
Questions & Answers about Höyrykone keksittiin kauan sitten, mutta teollistuminen alkoi todella vuonna 1760.
How exactly should I read the year 1760 out loud here, and what case are the numbers in?
You read it as tuhat seitsemänsataa kuusikymmentä. Because the number comes directly after the essive word vuonna (in the year), the numbers themselves stay in their basic uninflected nominative forms. If you dropped vuonna, you would have to inflect the numbers into the essive case instead.
Why is the passive keksittiin used in the first half, but the active alkoi in the second half?
Finnish uses the passive keksittiin (was invented) because people did the inventing, even though we don't say who. In the second half, teollistuminen (industrialization) is the actual subject doing the action of starting, so the active verb alkoi (began) is the natural choice.
How is the noun teollistuminen (industrialization) formed?
It is built in layers. It starts with the noun teollisuus (industry), which becomes the verb teollistua (to become industrial). Adding the -minen suffix turns that verb into the noun teollistuminen, which describes the ongoing process of industrializing.
Could I use tosi instead of todella to mean truly in this sentence?