Questions & Answers about Täällä me ostamme lisää voita.
Why is "butter" voita instead of voi in this sentence?
voi (butter) is a mass noun, meaning it is an uncountable substance. In affirmative sentences, when you are doing an action to an indefinite amount of a mass noun (like buying some butter), the object must be in the partitive case.
How do we form the partitive for the word voi?
The word voi ends in a diphthong (two different vowels together). When a Finnish word ends in two vowels, the partitive ending is usually -ta or -tä. Therefore, voi becomes voita.
Does the word lisää (more) also affect the case of voita?
Yes. Words that express a quantity, like lisää (more), paljon (a lot), or numbers other than one, require the noun following them to be in the partitive case.
We have seen a few words for "here". Why is it täällä in this sentence?
täällä means "here" in a general area, like in a specific country, city, or a large store. If you were pointing to a small, specific spot right in front of you, you would use tässä.
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