Questions & Answers about Me otimme vihanneksia ja vadelmia.
Why are both vihanneksia and vadelmia in the partitive plural?
When you take an unspecified amount of something (like 'some vegetables'), Finnish uses the partitive case. Because there is more than one vegetable and raspberry, we use the partitive plural. If you were taking all the vegetables in a specific group, you would use a different case.
How do we get vihanneksia from the dictionary word vihannes?
Words ending in -es have a stem that changes to -ekse-, so vihannes becomes vihannekse-. To form the partitive plural, the final -e in the stem drops out before adding the -ia ending, giving us vihanneksia.
What happens to the final letter of vadelma (raspberry) when forming vadelmia?
The basic word vadelma ends in -a. When we add the plural marker -i- and the partitive ending -a, the original final -a drops out. So vadelma becomes vadelmia without creating an awkward vowel combination.
Why does the verb otimme only have one t when the dictionary form ottaa (to take) has two?