Breakdown of Kuka on tutkinut tätä mannerta?
tämä
this
olla
to be
kuka
who
manner
continent
tutkia
to explore / to investigate / examine
Questions & Answers about Kuka on tutkinut tätä mannerta?
How is the perfect tense formed in on tutkinut?
The perfect tense uses the auxiliary verb olla (to be) conjugated to match the subject, plus the past participle of the main verb. Here, the question word kuka (who) takes the third-person singular on. The past participle of tutkia (to explore) is tutkinut.
How do we get tutkinut from the dictionary form tutkia?
Tutkia is a type 1 verb. To form the past participle for type 1 verbs, you drop the final -a or -ä to get the stem (here, tutki-) and add the ending -nut or -nyt.
Why are tätä and mannerta in the partitive case here?
The verb tutkia (to explore, to study) is a partitive verb. This means its object must usually be in the partitive case because the action of exploring is thought of as an ongoing, open-ended, or incomplete process. Because of this, tämä manner (this continent) becomes tätä mannerta.
The dictionary form for continent is manner. Why does its partitive form end in -ta instead of just -a?
Finnish nouns ending in the consonants -er (like manner or askel) take the -ta or -tä ending in the partitive case. This makes the partitive form mannerta.
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