Tehtävä on monimutkainen.

to be

Breakdown of Tehtävä on monimutkainen.

• tehtävä: the task
• monimutkainen: complicated

Questions & Answers about Tehtävä on monimutkainen.

What does tehtävä mean and what is its grammatical role?

Tehtävä means task or assignment. It is in the nominative singular and functions as the subject of the sentence.

Why is there no word for the or a before tehtävä?

Finnish lacks definite and indefinite articles. Definiteness or indefiniteness is understood from context or by using demonstratives (e.g. se tehtävä for that task).

What is on, and how is it formed?

On is the third person singular present form of the verb olla (to be). It corresponds to English is.

Why is monimutkainen not in the partitive case?

When an adjective follows olla as a predicate complement, both the noun and the adjective take the nominative case. The partitive would be used in other constructions, such as with indefinite objects.

How do adjectives and nouns agree in Finnish?

Adjectives match their nouns in case and number. Here, both tehtävä (singular nominative) and monimutkainen (singular nominative) agree with each other.

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