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Questions & Answers about Ystävä on kovin mukava.
What is the role of the linking verb on in this sentence?
On is the third-person singular form of olla (to be) and serves as the linking verb. It connects the subject ystävä (friend) with the predicate adjective mukava (nice), similar to how "is" functions in the English sentence "The friend is very nice."
Why doesn’t the sentence include an article before ystävä?
Finnish does not have articles like English does. Nouns in Finnish stand alone without words such as "a" or "the," so ystävä appears without any article.
What is the function of the adverb kovin in the sentence?
The adverb kovin intensifies the adjective that follows it. It means "very" or "extremely," emphasizing that the friend is not just nice, but very nice.
Why is the adjective mukava in its basic form without any additional inflection?
In Finnish predicate constructions, adjectives typically remain in their nominative (base) form when they describe the subject after a linking verb. Since ystävä is in the nominative case, mukava is also used in its uninflected form.
How does the structure of "Ystävä on kovin mukava" compare to a similar English sentence?
The sentence follows a Subject-Verb-Predicate adjective structure, much like the English "The friend is very nice." However, unlike English, Finnish omits articles and allows more flexibility in word order, even though the basic structure is quite similar.
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