siddetlendirici / guclendirici

Intensifiers

When you want to make an adjective stronger, you can use for example "really" and "very" in English. Example: a big boat, a really big boat. These two belong to the first group in the table hereunder: they're intensitivity particles.

The second group is the one which contains in English "terribly" (as in terribly difficult), "stunningly" (as in stunningly beautiful) and "extremely" (as in extremely important). As you can see, in English you take the -ly form of a word. In Finnish you take the genitive form!

Intensifying particles
Intensifiers	Examples	In English
aika	aika kaunis	pretty beautiful
aivan	aivan huono	really bad
erittäin	erittäin hyvä	extremely good
ihan	ihan kaunis	quite beautiful
kovin	kovin vaikea	terribly difficult
melko	melko kaunis	fairly beautiful
oikein	oikein kaunis	truly beautiful
perin	perin tärkeä	highly, exceedingly important
sangen	sangen hyvin	perfectly well
varsin	varsin hyvä	fairly good
verrattain	verrattain kaunis	relatively beautiful
ylen	ylen onnellinen	exceedingly happy
todella	todella kaunis	very beautiful
tosi	tosi kaunis	very beautiful
hyvin	hyvin kaunis	greatly beautiful
Genitive forms of nominatives
Intensifiers	Examples	In English
erikoisen	erikoisen sopiva	particularly suited
helvetin	helvetin vaikea	hellishly difficult
hirveän	hirveän iso	awfully big
ihmeen	ihmeen hyvin	wonderfully well
ilmeisen	ilmeisen selvä	evidently clear
kauhean	kauhean vaikea	terribly difficult
kohtalaisen	kohtalaisen kaunis	reasonably beautiful
kohtuuttoman	kohtuuttoman vaikea	unduly difficult
mahdollisimman	mahdollisimman hyvin	in the best possible way
mahdottoman	mahdottoman suuri	enormously big
suhteellisen	suhteellisen helppo	relatively easy
suhteettoman	suhteettoman suuri	disproportionately large
tavattoman	tavattoman vaikea	awfully, exceedingly difficult
uskomattoman	uskomattoman kaunis	unbelievably beautiful
äärettömän	äärettömän pieni	infinitesimal