Questions & Answers about Me tuomme lihaa tiikereille.
How is the allative plural formed for the word tiikeri?
The allative plural ending is -ille. For many words ending in -i, such as loanwords ending in -ri like tiikeri, the final -i changes to an -e- before the plural -i-. This creates the plural stem tiikere-, and adding the allative plural ending gives us tiikereille.
Why do we use the allative case (-lle) for the tigers?
In Finnish, the allative case (which literally means "onto") is used for the recipient of an action. When you give, bring, or say something to someone, that person or animal takes the allative case. Here, the tigers are the recipients being brought the meat.
Why is the word for meat (liha) in the partitive case here as lihaa?
liha is an uncountable mass noun. Because the sentence refers to an unspecified amount of meat (we are bringing "some meat", not a specific, entire thing), the object must be in the partitive case. You form it by adding the partitive ending -a to the root.
What is the base form of the verb tuomme?
The base form is tuoda (to bring), which is a Type 2 verb (verbs ending in two vowels). To conjugate it for "we" (me), you drop the final -da to get the stem tuo-, and then add the personal ending -mme.
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