Breakdown of Me siirrämme puhtaan vaatteen kaappiin.
me
we
kaappi
closet
puhdas
clean
vaate
the garment
siirtää
to move
Questions & Answers about Me siirrämme puhtaan vaatteen kaappiin.
Why does kaappi become kaappiin in this sentence?
This is the illative case, which we use to say we are putting something into a place. It answers the question mihin (where to). To form it here, we take kaappi (cupboard), double the last vowel i, and add n.
Why do the words for clean garment end in -n (puhtaan vaatteen)?
They are the object of the sentence (the thing being moved). Because we are moving the whole garment, the words take the object case ending -n. Notice that both the adjective puhtaan and the noun vaatteen must match and take this ending.
The dictionary form of the verb is siirtää. Why does it change to siirrämme?
This happens because of consonant gradation. When we add the personal ending -mme, the strong consonant pair rt in the middle of siirtää softens to the weak form rr, giving us siirrämme.
How do we get puhtaan from the dictionary word puhdas (clean)?
Finnish words ending in -as change their ending before we attach grammatical endings. The -as in puhdas turns into -aa-, creating the stem puhtaa-. Then we just add the -n to get puhtaan.
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