Questions & Answers about Lue sivuja ja tekstejä!
Why is the verb lue instead of lukea or lukee?
Lue is the command form (imperative) of the verb lukea (to read). To form a direct command for one person, you take the minä (I) form, which is luen, and drop the -n. Notice how the k disappears because of consonant gradation!
Why are the words for "pages" and "texts" in the partitive plural here?
They are the objects of the action. Because the sentence is talking about an unspecified amount of pages and texts (like saying "Read some pages and texts!"), we use the partitive plural. If it meant "Read all the pages!", we would use a different case.
Both sivuja and tekstejä use the partitive plural ending taught in this lesson. Why does one end in -a and the other in -ä?
This is due to vowel harmony. The word sivu contains the back vowel u, which forces the ending to be the back vowel -a. The word teksti only contains the neutral vowels e and i, which means it takes the front vowel ending -ä.
How exactly do we get from the basic word teksti to tekstejä?
For newer loanwords ending in -i (like teksti), the i usually changes to an e when building the plural stem, making it tekste-. Then we add the plural marker -i- and the partitive ending -ä. Because the combination -eiä- is tricky to pronounce, the plural -i- turns into a -j-, giving us tekstejä.
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