Questions & Answers about He tekevät vielä tehtävää.
The lesson is about the -n object, but here we have tehtävää (partitive). Why?
The word vielä (still) tells us the action is ongoing, not completed yet. Because they haven't finished doing the task, the object tehtävä must be in the partitive case (tehtävää). We only use the -n ending when the whole action is completely finished.
Are the words tekevät and tehtävää related?
Yes! The noun tehtävä (task, assignment, or duty) comes directly from the verb tehdä (to do or make). It essentially means something that is 'to be done'.
Why does the verb tehdä become tekevät? Where does the k come from?
The verb tehdä is highly irregular. When we conjugate it, the basic stem changes and a k appears before the personal endings. For 'they', we add the ending -vät to the stem teke-, giving us tekevät (they do or they are doing).
Could I put the word vielä before the verb, like in English?
It is much more natural to put the adverb vielä immediately after the verb in Finnish (He tekevät vielä...). Placing it before the verb (He vielä tekevät...) sounds like an unnatural direct translation from English.
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