Breakdown of Tutkimus osoittaa, että uni on tärkeää.
olla
to be
tärkeä
important
että
that (conjunction)
tutkimus
the research
uni
sleep
osoittaa
to point out, to indicate
Questions & Answers about Tutkimus osoittaa, että uni on tärkeää.
The lesson is about osoittautua, but this sentence uses osoittaa. What is the connection?
Osoittaa means "to show" or "to indicate". Osoittautua is its reflexive derivative, meaning "to turn out to be". While osoittautua triggers the translative case of outcome you are currently studying, the base verb osoittaa does not, and simply takes an object or an että clause.
If I wanted to say "The research turns out to be important" using the current lesson's grammar, how would that look?
You would use the verb osoittautua and put the adjective into the translative case to show the outcome: Tutkimus osoittautuu tärkeäksi.
Why is the adjective tärkeää in the partitive case here instead of the nominative tärkeä?
When an adjective describes an uncountable mass noun or an abstract concept in general (like uni when it means "sleep"), it takes the partitive case. If you were talking about a specific, countable dream, you would use the nominative: Uni on tärkeä (The dream is important).
Does tutkimus mean "research" or "a study"?
It can mean both. Finnish doesn't use articles, so tutkimus naturally covers both the uncountable concept of research and a specific, individual study.
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