Questions & Answers about Minä harkitsen uutta ideaa.
How do you form harkitsen from the basic verb?
The dictionary form is harkita (to consider). This is a Type 5 verb, which usually ends in -ita or -itä. To find the stem, you drop the -ta and add -tse-, giving us the stem harkitse-. Then, just add the personal ending -n for "I" to get harkitsen.
Why do we say uutta ideaa instead of "uusi idea"?
The verb harkita (to consider) describes an ongoing process rather than a completed, final action. Because you are in the middle of thinking about it, the object of the sentence ("a new idea") must be in the partitive case, which gives us uutta ideaa.
How does the word uusi (new) become uutta?
The word uusi belongs to a special group of old Finnish words ending in -si. To make these words partitive, you don't just add an -a. Instead, the -si changes to a -t- and you add the partitive ending -ta. Therefore, uusi becomes uutta.
Why does ideaa have two 'a's at the end?
The basic dictionary word for "idea" is exactly the same as in English: idea. To put it into the partitive case, we add the partitive ending -a. Since the root word already ends in an -a, it simply doubles up to become ideaa.
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