Word
Miksi katsot noita harjoja?
Meaning
Why are you looking at those brushes?
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Miksi katsot noita harjoja?
Why do we use noita here instead of tuo or nuo?
noita is the partitive plural form of tuo (that). We need the plural form because we are talking about multiple brushes, and we need the partitive case because of the verb katsoa (to look at). So, tuo becomes noita (those).
Why are both noita and harjoja in the partitive case?
In Finnish, the verb katsoa (to look at) always requires the object you are looking at to be in the partitive case. When a demonstrative pronoun like noita (those) points to a noun like harjoja (brushes), they must match in form, so both take the partitive plural.
How does the base word harja (brush) change into harjoja?
To build the partitive plural, we insert the plural marker -i- before the partitive ending -a. For words ending in -a where the first vowel is also a (like harja), the final -a changes to -o- when adding the -i-, resulting in harjoja.
Why isn't the word sinä (you) included in the sentence?