Breakdown of He jättivät vanhat tavarat kylmiin varastoihin.
he
they
vanha
old
kylmä
cold
jättää
to leave (something behind)
tavara
the item
varasto
storage room
Questions & Answers about He jättivät vanhat tavarat kylmiin varastoihin.
Why does the sentence use the illative (into) case kylmiin varastoihin when the English translation says 'in'?
In Finnish, the verb jättää (to leave) always requires the location to be in the illative case. Finnish logic thinks of the action as leaving something into a place, unlike English where it is left in a place.
How is the illative plural kylmiin formed from the basic word kylmä?
To form the plural stem, the final ä drops out when the plural i is added, making the stem kylmi-. Because this plural stem ends in a single short vowel, we add the standard illative plural ending -in, giving us kylmiin.
Why does varastoihin use the -hin ending instead of just -in?
The basic word is varasto. When we add the plural i, we get the plural stem varastoi-. If a plural stem ends in a diphthong (two different vowels together, like o and i), the illative plural ending is -hin. Therefore, varastoi- becomes varastoihin.
Why do the words for 'old goods' (vanhat tavarat) end with a -t?
They are the direct object of the verb. In Finnish, when you have a normal sentence with a subject and a verb, a plural object is written in the nominative plural form, which ends in -t. Both the noun and its adjective must take this ending.
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