"Arkene er fuldstændigt hvide."
Translation:The sheets are completely white.
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To save you a trip to the dictionary -- The 'sheets' here (arkene) refer to PAPER, not bedding.
Nothing in this case. I can't think of a situation where they couldn't be used fuldstændigt interchangeably.
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Ethymologically it looks much closer to "completely" if I assume the similarity with German... fuld-stændigt sounds the same as vollständig (which is also broken into pieces voll-ständig, and also means completely).
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Why isn't this "fuldstændige" since the other words are in their plural form?
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In this sentence, "Fuldstændigt" is an adverb modifying the adjective "hvide." Typically, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, but adverbs are invariable. In this example, the ending -t on "fuldstændigt" helps you to recognize the word as an adverb. Does that help?
