Word
Joku voi samaistua paikallisiin, mutta kaikki ihastuvat uuteen ruokakulttuuriin.
Meaning
Someone might identify with the locals, but everyone falls for the new food culture.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Joku voi samaistua paikallisiin, mutta kaikki ihastuvat uuteen ruokakulttuuriin.
mutta
but
uusi
new
voida
can, to be able to
joku
somebody, someone
Questions & Answers about Joku voi samaistua paikallisiin, mutta kaikki ihastuvat uuteen ruokakulttuuriin.
Why do both samaistua and ihastua require the illative case (paikallisiin, uuteen ruokakulttuuriin)?
Verbs describing a psychological change of state where you become attached, accustomed, or directed towards something usually take the illative (the "into" case). In Finnish, you are mentally stepping "into" an identification with the locals (paikallisiin) and "into" a fondness for the food culture (ruokakulttuuriin).
How exactly is paikallisiin formed from the base word paikallinen (local)?
Words ending in -nen change to -s- in their stem, and then take an -i- to mark the plural. This makes the plural stem paikallisi-. Finally, we add the illative plural ending -in, resulting in paikallisiin (into the locals).
Why is the verb ihastuvat plural here when the English translation uses the singular "falls"?
In English, "everyone" is grammatically singular. In Finnish, the pronoun kaikki acts as a plural subject when it refers to a group of people, so it requires the third-person plural verb form ihastuvat rather than the singular ihastuu.
Could I use rakastuvat instead of ihastuvat here?