Questions & Answers about Maistoitko sinä mustaa makkaraa?
How is the past tense verb maistoitko built?
The basic verb is maistaa (to taste, Verb Type 1). To form the past tense, the final -a changes to -o before adding the past tense marker -i-. Then, we add the personal ending for 'you' (-t) and the question particle (-ko).
This lesson is about dropping vowels from diphthongs in Type 2 verbs. Does the ai in maistaa change?
No, because maistaa is a Type 1 verb. The rule you are learning right now (where a Type 2 verb like juoda drops a vowel to become join) does not apply here. In Type 1 verbs, a diphthong inside the word stays completely untouched.
Why are both words in 'black sausage' in the partitive case (mustaa makkaraa)?
The verb maistaa requires the partitive case. Whenever you taste something, you are sampling a part of it, not consuming it entirely. Because of this rule, both the adjective (musta) and the noun (makkara) take the partitive ending -a.
Could 'black sausage' be written as one word instead?
Yes! The famous Tampere blood sausage is usually written as a compound word: mustamakkara. If you use the compound word, only the very end gets the partitive ending, making it mustamakkaraa. In this sentence, it is written as two separate words, so both take the ending.
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