Questions & Answers about Kasteletko sinä kukat ja pensaat?
Why are kukat and pensaat in the nominative plural (-t) instead of the partitive?
When an action is viewed as complete and targets the whole of something, the plural object takes the -t ending. This is the plural total object. By using it here, you are asking if the person will finish watering all of the specific flowers and bushes.
Why does kukka lose a 'k' when it becomes kukat?
This is due to consonant gradation. Adding the plural -t ending closes the last syllable, which forces the word into its weak grade. The double kk in kukka therefore weakens to a single k in kukat.
How do we get from the dictionary word for bush to pensaat?
The basic word for bush is pensas. For words ending in -as or -äs, you drop the final -s and double the vowel to find the stem. This gives us the stem pensaa-, and adding the plural -t makes it pensaat.
What is the base form of the verb in kasteletko?