Breakdown of Olin turhautunut huonoon tilanteeseen, mikä antoi minulle itseluottamusta suunnanmuutokseen.
olla
to be
minä
I
huono
bad
antaa
to give
tilanne
situation
mikä
which (relative pronoun)
turhautunut
frustrated
suunnanmuutos
change of direction
itseluottamus
self-confidence
Questions & Answers about Olin turhautunut huonoon tilanteeseen, mikä antoi minulle itseluottamusta suunnanmuutokseen.
The lesson mentions using mikä for superlatives. Why is mikä used here instead of joka, since there is no superlative?
Another major rule is that mikä is used when referring back to the entire preceding clause. Here, the thing giving confidence wasn't the bad situation itself, but the entire fact of being frustrated by it (Olin turhautunut huonoon tilanteeseen). If you used joka, it would grammatically point only to the immediately preceding noun (tilanteeseen).
Why is "with the bad situation" translated using the illative case (huonoon tilanteeseen)?
The word turhautunut (frustrated) comes from the verb turhautua. In Finnish, verbs expressing an emotional reaction or a change of state often take the illative case (the "into" case). Just as you fall in love "into" someone (rakastua), you get frustrated "into" a situation.
How does the word suunnanmuutokseen break down, and why is it also in the illative case?
It is a compound word made of suunnan (genitive of suunta, meaning "direction's") and muutos (change). It is in the illative case (-een) because the confidence is directed towards making that change.
Why is itseluottamusta in the partitive case here?
Itseluottamus (self-confidence) is an abstract, uncountable noun. Because the situation gave an undefined amount of self-confidence rather than a complete, countable unit, it takes the partitive case as the object of the verb antoi.
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