Breakdown of Aviomies rakastaa vaimoa, ja vaimo rakastaa häntä.
hän
he / she
ja
and
rakastaa
to love
vaimo
wife
aviomies
husband
Questions & Answers about Aviomies rakastaa vaimoa, ja vaimo rakastaa häntä.
Why is it häntä instead of hän at the end of the sentence?
häntä is the partitive form of the personal pronoun hän (he/she). In Finnish, the verb rakastaa (to love) always forces the person or thing being loved into the partitive case.
Does häntä specifically mean "him", or can it mean "her" too?
It can mean either! Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns. Because the sentence already tells us the wife is loving the husband (aviomies), we know from context that häntä translates to "him" here.
Why does the word for wife appear as both vaimoa and vaimo?
In the first half, the wife is the object being loved, so the verb rakastaa forces it into the partitive case (vaimoa). In the second half, the wife is the subject doing the loving, so it stays in the basic dictionary form (vaimo).
What does the avio part of aviomies mean?
avio is a word related to marriage or matrimony. By combining it with mies (man), you get aviomies, which is the specific Finnish word for husband.
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