Breakdown of Kuntoutus on paras voimavara, kun tuemme syrjäytyneitä.
olla
to be
kun
when (conjunction)
tukea
to support
paras
best
syrjäytynyt
marginalized
kuntoutus
rehabilitation
voimavara
resource (strength, asset, personal resource)
Questions & Answers about Kuntoutus on paras voimavara, kun tuemme syrjäytyneitä.
How is syrjäytyneitä used here without a word for "people"?
It is a participle acting as an adjective, and here it is used independently as a noun to mean "the marginalized". Just like in English, Finnish allows you to drop the head noun (like ihmisiä) and use a plural adjective to represent a whole demographic group.
Why is syrjäytyneitä in the partitive plural instead of the nominative plural (syrjäytyneet)?
What kind of word is syrjäytyneitä originally? It looks like a verb form.
You are right, it is the active past participle (the NUT participle) of the verb syrjäytyä (to become marginalized or socially excluded). These participles frequently act as adjectives, which means they can also be treated as nouns to describe groups of people who have undergone that action.
What are the parts of the compound word voimavara?
It is made up of voima (power, strength, force) and vara (reserve, fund, provision). Combined, they create the word for "resource" or "asset".
The superlative of hyvä (good) is paras (best). Could I use parhain here instead?
While parhain is grammatically correct as a regularized superlative form of hyvä, it sounds very poetic or slightly archaic. In modern everyday Finnish, paras is the standard and most natural choice for "best".
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