Breakdown of En ole lähettänyt hakemusta.
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
lähettää
to send
hakemus
application
Questions & Answers about En ole lähettänyt hakemusta.
Why do we use ole instead of olen in this sentence?
To form the negative perfect tense, you use the negative verb (here en for I) plus ole, and then the main verb in its past participle form (lähettänyt). The auxiliary verb olla always drops its personal ending after the negative verb, which is why we use ole instead of olen.
How do you get lähettänyt from the dictionary form lähettää?
Lähettää (to send) is a type 1 verb. To make the past participle, you take the base stem (lähettä-) and add -nyt or -nut. Because of vowel harmony with the front vowels ä and e, we add -nyt, giving us lähettänyt.
Why is the word for application (hakemus) in the partitive case (hakemusta)?
In Finnish, if a sentence is negative, the object of the action must almost always be in the partitive case. Since you have not sent the application, the object hakemus must become hakemusta.
How does the word hakemus change to hakemusta in the partitive?
Hakemus is a noun ending in -us. For most words ending in -us or -ys, you form the partitive simply by adding -ta or -tä directly to the basic dictionary form. So, hakemus plus -ta equals hakemusta.
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