Breakdown of Me emme harkitse huonoa hotellia.
me
we
huono
bad
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
hotelli
hotel
harkita
to consider
Questions & Answers about Me emme harkitse huonoa hotellia.
How do we form the negative verb emme harkitse from the dictionary verb harkita?
To make a verb negative, you need the negative verb (here, emme for "we") and the negative stem of the main verb. For Verb Type 5 verbs like harkita (to consider), you find the stem by taking the "I" form (harkitsen) and dropping the -n. That leaves you with the word harkitse.
Where does the -tse- in harkitse come from?
That is the special rule for Verb Type 5! Whenever a verb ends in -ita or -itä, that ending transforms into -itse- (or -itsä-) before you add personal endings. So harkita becomes harkitsen (I consider). Because the negative stem is built from the "I" form, it keeps the -tse-.
Why do the words for "bad hotel" end in -a (huonoa hotellia)?
They are in the partitive case. A major rule in Finnish is that if a sentence is negative (like not doing something to an object), the object almost always takes the partitive case. Hotelli becomes hotellia. Because adjectives have to match their nouns, huono (bad) also takes the partitive ending to become huonoa.
Do I have to include the word me (we) at the beginning of the sentence?
No, it is optional! Because the negative verb emme already specifically means "we do not", the pronoun me can be dropped. Saying Emme harkitse huonoa hotellia is perfectly correct and very natural in Finnish.
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