Breakdown of Tämä työpaikkailmoitus on todella kiinnostava.
tämä
this
olla
to be
kiinnostava
interesting
todella
really (very, intensifier)
työpaikkailmoitus
job advertisement
Questions & Answers about Tämä työpaikkailmoitus on todella kiinnostava.
Why does the sentence use kiinnostava instead of kiinnostunut?
Kiinnostava is an active participle from the verb kiinnostaa (to interest). It means "interesting" because the subject is the thing causing the interest. On the other hand, kiinnostunut means "interested" and is used for the person experiencing the feeling. Since the job advertisement is causing the interest, we must use kiinnostava.
Why is kiinnostava in the nominative case here instead of the partitive?
With the verb olla (to be), the case of the describing adjective depends on the subject. Työpaikkailmoitus is a concrete, countable noun; you can easily count one advertisement, two advertisements. Therefore, the adjective takes the nominative case. If the subject were an uncountable mass noun or a broad abstract concept, the adjective would take the partitive case.
How is the noun ilmoitus formed in the compound word työpaikkailmoitus?
The word ilmoitus comes from the verb ilmoittaa, which means "to announce" or "to notify". In Finnish, you can frequently turn a verb into a noun by adding the suffix -us or -ys. Here, it turns the action of announcing into the noun "announcement" or "notice".
Could I use tosi instead of todella to mean "really" in this sentence?
Yes, you absolutely can say tosi kiinnostava. Both mean "really" or "very" and mean the exact same thing here. The main difference is the register: tosi is extremely common in everyday spoken Finnish, whereas todella is standard language and works perfectly in both formal writing and speech.
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