Word
En ole vielä täyttänyt lomaketta.
Meaning
I have not filled in the form yet.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of En ole vielä täyttänyt lomaketta.
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
vielä
yet / still
täyttää
to fill in
Questions & Answers about En ole vielä täyttänyt lomaketta.
How does the negative perfect tense work in en ole... täyttänyt?
To say 'I have not done' something, you need three parts: the personal negative verb (en for 'I'), the helper verb ole (which never changes in this tense), and the past participle of the main verb (täyttänyt).
Why is the word for 'form' (lomaketta) in the partitive case here?
Because this is a negative sentence! In Finnish, if an action isn't happening, its object must be in the partitive case. The dictionary form is lomake, and words ending in -e take the ending -tta or -ttä in the partitive.
How is the past participle täyttänyt formed from the verb täyttää (to fill in)?
Täyttää is a Type 1 verb. To form the past participle for a Type 1 verb, you drop the final -a or -ä from the dictionary form and add -nut or -nyt. Notice that it keeps the strong double -tt- in this form!
Where should the word vielä (yet) go in sentences like this?
In negative perfect sentences, time words like vielä usually sit right between the helper verbs (en ole) and the main verb (täyttänyt). You can put it at the end of the sentence, but that places extra, dramatic emphasis on the word 'yet'.