AdjektiivitTukipaketti

Adjektiivit

Adjektiivit predikatiiveina

1. Käännä lauseparit. Käytä eri adjektiivia lauseparin eri osissa lihavoidun sanan käännöksessä.

1. Sulje auton ovi — se on auki. Kuka tahansa pääsee sisään avoimesta ovesta.

2. Olin unessa, kun tulit. Miten herättää nukkuva lapsi?

3. Olen harvoin kipeä. Monia sairaita opiskelijoita oli tänään poissa koulusta.

4. Tämä on iloinen hetki. Olen iloinen kokiessani tämän.

5. Olen peloissani. Olen pelokas pieni lapsi.

6. Oletko terve nyt? Vietät niin tervettä elämää.

7. Voit olla yksin olematta yksinäinen.

Substantivoidut adjektiivit

2. Lisää annettujen vihjeiden mukaiset adjektiivit oikeassa muodossaan.

1. You can judge a society by the way are cared for I heard

say once. (vanhat; eräs vanhus)

2. He is with a lot of ambition. Are always that

ambitious? (nuori; nuoret)

Malli Me kaksi olemme samanlaisia. Meillä on samanlaisia ajatuksia.

(= We two are alike. We have similar thoughts.)

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3. Earlier was sent to special schools

for . Luckily nowadays most of them attend the same schools as we.

(liikuntarajoitteinen (= disabled); liikuntarjoitteiset)

4. Christopher Columbus’ journey westwards was a journey into . (tuntematon)

5. Do you believe in ? (yliluonnollinen)

6. should be made to pay but should not be

punished. (Syylliset; viattomat)

7. don’t have much money. needs to live sparingly.

(Köyhät; köyhä)

8. were taken into hospital. (Loukkaantuneet)

9. Is the music so much different from the music ?

(nuorten; vanhojen)

10. I’m expecting to happen. (odottamaton)

Numeromääre adjektiivin osana

3. Käännä. Kiinnitä huomiota numeroilmauksen muotoon.

1. Alex on 8-vuotias poika, mutta Alexandra on 18-vuotias.

2. Tällä projektilla on viisi vaihetta. Se on viiden vaiheen mittainen projekti.

3. Treenini kesti 45 minuuttia. Se on 45-minuuttinen treeni.

4. Matkamme Arabiemiraattikuntiin kesti kymmenen päivää. Se oli jännittävä kymmenpäiväinen matka.

5. Minulla oli 20-kiloinen matkalaukku mukanani. Äidin matkalaukku painoi 30 kiloa.

6. Pikkusiskoni löysi kahdenkymmenen euron setelin leikkikentältä. Hän käytti viisi euroa ja laittoi 15 säästöpossuun.

7. Tuo näyttää tosi paksulta kirjalta. Siinä täytyy olla ainakin 500 sivua. - Ei, se on 900-sivuvinen romaani.

8. Rakennuksessa, jossa asun, on viisi kerrosta. Se on viisikerroksinen rakennus.

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4. Mikä ero on seuraavien lauseiden merkityksellä? Suomenna.

1a. I saw four foot-high rabbits.

Ero:

Suomennos:

1b. I saw four-foot-high rabbits.

Ero:

Suomennos:

Adjektiivien vertailu

5. Muodosta korostetusta adjektiivista komparatiivi ja superlatiivi.

1. My pet turtle will probably live long. Elephants live than most other animals, but a

Greenland shark may live . One individual was found that was 400 years old.

2. This is not a difficult exercise! The exercise we did last time was than this. But Mrs.

McKay gives us exercises of all.

3. Parkour can be a dangerous hobby, but I’m sure cliff diving is . Someone said that

bungee jumping is hobby in the world.

4. Some stand-up comedians are really funny. Definitely than you! Who do you think is

person you know?

5. Monrovia in Liberia is a rainy city, 182 inches of rainfall a year. Quibdó in Columbia is even , 354

inches of rainfall a year. These two are perhaps cities in the world.

6. I live in a large family — we are eight. Your family is not than ours, is it? You are five. So

my family is , isn’t it?

7. This street is very narrow. Have you ever seen a street?

street in the world is Spreuerhofstraße in Germany. It is only 31 centimetres at its tightest.

8. My grandfather was a successful businessman. My father was an even than him. I

want to be of us three.

9. The pain in my back is severe, than yesterday,

I’ve ever experienced.

10. Your voice is very soft. Is your mother’s voice or harder than yours? I think our speech

therapist has voice ever!

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6. Täydennä adjektiivin oikea vertailumuoto (komparatiivi tai superlatiivi).

1. My Ferrari is than your Porsche. (good)

2. Thailand is than Jordania. (far)

3. This is the film I have ever seen. (good)

4. You always want to buy mobile phone. (late)

5. Alice always has to have word, doesn’t she? (late)

6. Rotten eggs smell than rotten fish. (bad)

7. But Swedish surströmming smells of them all. (bad)

8. Who is of the members of the Beatles? (well-known)

7. Käännä.

1. Kuulitko uusimmat juorut?

2. Muistatko edellisen kerran, kun Liza oli täällä?

3. Hänellä oli maailman pahin päänsärky.

4. Se oli pahempi kuin mikään, mitä hän oli kokenut aiemmin.

5. Selvisi myöhemmin, mikä syy siihen oli.

6. Hänellä oli ollut päässään vanhemman sisarensa hiuspanta, joka oli liian tiukka.

7. Onko hänen isosiskonsa se hyvin tunnettu näyttelijä?

8. On, mutta hänen vanhin veljensä on vielä paremmin tunnettu.

9. Hän on ajanut Le Mansissa, vanhimmassa moottoriurheilun kestävyyskilpailussa.

10. Sen kilpailun voittaja on se, joka on ajanut pisimmälle 24 tunnissa.

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8. Ilmaise englanniksi.

1. Olen yhtä vanha kuin henkilö, joka istuu vieressäni.

2. Me emme ole toinen toisestamme niin eroavia.

3. Geneettisesti olemme 99,9%:sti samanlaisia.

4. Simpanssit ovat 96%:sti perinnöllisesti (= geneettisesti) samanlaisia kuin ihmiset.

5. Simpansseilla on 48 kromosomia — se on kaksi enemmän kuin ihmisillä.

6. Ihmisaivot ovat paljon ryppyisemmät kuin simpanssien aivot.

7. Kananpoika on melko erilainen kuin ihminen.

8. 60% niiden geeneistä on samoja kuin meidän.

9. Banaanit ja kananpojat jakavat yhtä monta samanlaista geeniä.

10. Mikään tästä ei tarkoita, kuitenkaan, että yksi laji on vähempiarvoinen kuin toinen.

11. Tai ylempiarvoinen kuin kukaan toisista, tietenkään.

12. Joten tieteellisesti olemme enemmän tai vähemmän samanlaisia.

9. Täydennä lauseet suluissa annettujen adjektiivien komparatiivi- tai superlatiivimuodoilla sekä vahvistussanalla. Käytä tarvittaessa than-sanaa.

1. After practice you’ll do the first time. (a lot / good)

2. We wish you all for your future. (very / good)

3. Consider how to make your job interviews . (much / efficient)

4. Warsaw Old Town is part of that city. (by far / fascinating)

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5. How can I make my next presentation my previous one? (far / little / boring)

6. This stand-up comedian must be humourist . (funny; of all)

7. My new job is working in a steel works. (way / rewarding)

8. The canteen here is also in my previous place of employment. (a bit / nice)

10. Tee lauseita mallin mukaisesti muodostaaksesi rakenteen “mitä -mpi … sitä -mpi”

1. long vacation – it is good

2. the cheap flight - bad flight times

3. the big freezer – much ice-cream

4. a tough coach – demanding

5. start soon – finish soon

6. the challenging exercise - it will take long

11. Täydennä lauseet.

1. Towards the end the thriller got the first time. (yhä yllättävämpi)

2. The cost of education goes up each year. (yhä nopeampi)

3. As the weather gets you should head out more often. (yhä aurinkoisempi)

4. Things get before they get .

(yhä huonompi; yhä parempi)

5. How come you seem to get every year that goes by? (yhä menestyksekkäämpi)

6. Consumers are growing and more questioning. (yhä epäluuloisempi)

7. This halloween things are going to get . That’s a promise! (yhä kummallisempi)

8. Hopefully not , though. (yhä pelottavampi)

Malli fast car - high risk of a crash

The faster the car, the higher the risk of a crash.

(Mitä nopeampi auto, sitä suurempi on kolarin riski.)

Keys:

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Key 1 1. Close the car door - it’s ajar. Anyone can get in through an open door.

2. I was asleep when you came. How to awaken a sleeping child?

3. I am seldom/rarely ill. Many sick students were absent from school today.

4. This is a happy moment. I am glad to experience this.

5. I am afraid/scared. I am a scared/frightened little child.

6. Are you well now? You lead such a healthy life.

7. You can be alone without being lonely.

Key 2 1. the old / old people

2. young man/person; the young / young people

3. a disabled person/student; the disabled / disabled people

4. the unknown

5. the supernatural

6. The guilty / Guilty people; the innocent / innocent people

7. The poor / Poor people; A poor person

8. The injured / Injured people

9. the young / of young people; of the old / of old people

10. the unexpected

Key 3 1. Alex is an eight-year-old boy but Alexandra is 18/eighteen (years old).

2. This project has five phases. It is a five-phase(-long) project.

3. My workout lasted 45 minutes. It is a 45-minute(-long) workout.

4. Our trip to The Arab Emirates lasted ten days. It was an exciting ten-day trip.

5. I had a twenty-kilogram suitcase with me. Mom’s suitcase weighed thirty kilograms.

6. My little sister found a twenty-euro note on the playground. She spent five euros and put fifteen in the piggy bank.

7. That looks like a very thick book. It must have at least 500 pages. - No, it’s a 900-page(-long) novel.

8. The building I live in is five storeys high. It’s a five-storey-high building.

Key 4 1a. Näin neljä yhden jalan korkuista kaniinia. (neljä kaniinia, kukin yhden jalan korkuinen)

1b. Näin neljän jalan korkuisia kaniineja. (kaikki kaniinit olivat neljän jalan korkuisia)

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Key 5 1. longer; the longest

2. more difficult; the most difficult

3. more dangerous; the most dangerous

4. funnier; the funniest

5. rainier; the rainiest

6. larger; the largest

7. narrower / more narrow; the narrowest / the most narrow

8. more successful; the most successful

9. more severe; the most severe

10. softer; the softest

Key 6 1. better

2. farther/further

3. best

4. the latest

5. the last

6. worse

7. the worst

8. the best-known

Key 7 1. Did you hear the latest gossip?

2. Do you remember the last time when Liza was here?

3. She had the world’s worst headache.

4. It was worse than anything she had experienced earlier/before.

5. It was later revealed what the reason for it was.

6. She had been wearing her older/elder sister’s headband which was too tight.

7. Is her big sister the well-known actor/actress?

8. Yes, but her eldest brother is even better-known.

9. He has driven in Le Mans, the oldest endurance motor race.

10. The winner of that race is the one who has driven the furthest/farthest in 24 hours.

Key 8 1. I am as old as the person who is sitting next to me.

2. We are not so different from each other / one another.

3. Genetically we are 99.9% similar.

4. Chimpanzees are 96% genetically similar to humans.

5. Chimpanzees have 48 chromosomes, that’s two more than humans.

6. Human brains are much more wrinkled than chimpanzee brains.

7. A chicken is rather different from/than/to a human.

8. 60% of their genes are the same as ours.

9. Bananas and chickens share equally many similar genes.

10. None of this means, though, that one species is inferior to another.

11. Or superior to any of the others, of course.

12. So scientifically we are more or less the same.

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Key 9 1. a lot better than

2. the very best

3. much more efficient

4. by far the most fascinating

5. far less boring than

6. the funniest; of all

7. way more rewarding than

8. a bit nicer than

Key 10 1. The longer the vacation, the better it is.

2. The cheaper the flight, the worse the flight times.

3. The bigger the freezer, the more ice-cream.

4. The tougher the coach, the more demanding.

5. The sooner we start, the sooner we finish.

6. The more challenging the exercise, the longer it’ll take.

Key 11 1. more and more surprising / even more surprising / more surprising still

2. faster and faster / even faster / faster still

3. sunnier and sunnier / even sunnier / sunnier still

4. worse and worse / even worse / worse still; better and better / even better / better still

5. more and more successful / even more successful / more successful still

6. more and more suspicious / even more suspicious / more suspicious still

7. stranger and stranger / even stranger / stranger still

8. more and more frightening/scary / even more frightening/scary / more frightening/scary still