Breakdown of Miksi te kävelitte eilen noissa isoissa palatseissa ja torneissa?
tuo
that
ja
and
te
you (plural/formal)
iso
big
kävellä
to walk
miksi
why
eilen
yesterday
palatsi
the palace
torni
the tower
Questions & Answers about Miksi te kävelitte eilen noissa isoissa palatseissa ja torneissa?
How do we get the forms palatseissa and torneissa from palatsi and torni?
Both palatsi (palace) and torni (tower) are words ending in -i. When forming the plural stem for these types of words, the final -i changes to an -e- before we add the plural marker -i- and the inessive ending -ssa. So torni becomes torne- + i + ssa = torneissa.
Why is the word for 'in those' noissa instead of niissä?
Niissä comes from the pronoun ne (they/those in general). However, this sentence uses nuo, which specifically means 'those over there'. The plural stem for nuo is noi-, so adding the inessive ending -ssa gives us noissa.
Why does iso (big) change to isoissa?
How is the past tense verb kävelitte formed?
The word eilen (yesterday) means the sentence is in the past tense. The verb kävellä (to walk) has the stem kävele-. To form the past tense, that final -e- changes to -i-, making käveli-. Then we add the plural 'you' ending -tte.
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