Questions & Answers about Me keskustelimme tutkimuksesta.
How do we form the past tense of keskustella here?
Keskustella (to discuss) is a Type 3 verb. To form the past tense, you start with the consonant stem keskustel-, add the past tense marker -i-, and then attach the personal ending -mme for 'we'. This gives us keskustelimme.
Why does tutkimus (research) end in -sta in this sentence?
The verb keskustella requires the thing you are discussing to be in the elative case, which means adding -sta or -stä. In Finnish, you literally say that you talk 'out of' a topic.
What is the stem change happening in tutkimuksesta?
The basic dictionary word is tutkimus (research). Words ending in -us usually change their ending to -ukse- before you add grammar endings. So the stem becomes tutkimukse-, to which we attach the -sta ending.
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