Questions & Answers about He kutsuvat meidät sisään.
Why do we use meidät here instead of the basic word for we, me?
Meidät is the accusative form of me. In Finnish, personal pronouns take a special -t ending when they are the complete object of an action. Since we are the ones being completely invited, we must use meidät to mean us.
Would it be wrong to use the partitive form meitä in this sentence?
Yes, it would sound unnatural here. The verb kutsua (to invite) normally takes a complete accusative object. Using the partitive meitä would imply an incomplete or ongoing action, which does not fit the simple act of inviting someone in.
How does the verb kutsuvat match the subject he?
The dictionary form of the verb is kutsua (to invite). To match the subject he (they), you take the stem kutsu- and add the third-person plural ending -vat, creating kutsuvat.
Why is the word for inside sisään?
Finnish location words change depending on the direction of movement. Sisään specifically means moving into the inside. Because the invitation requires us to move from the outside to the inside, we use sisään rather than sisällä (which means already being inside).
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