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Se kielletään uudessa laissa.

Se kielletään uudessa laissa.
It is forbidden in the new law.
From Lesson 104:Passive voice present affirmative·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Se kielletään uudessa laissa.

How is the passive verb kielletään formed from the dictionary form kieltää?
Kieltää (to forbid) is a type 1 verb. To form the passive present, you take the weak stem (kiellä-), change the final -a or -ä to -e-, and add the passive ending -taan or -tään. Here, the lt softens to ll, and the final ä becomes e, giving us kielle- + -tään.
Why is the word for 'it' translated as se instead of the partitive sitä?
In passive sentences, the object is put in the basic form (nominative) if the action applies to the entire thing. Since the law forbids 'it' entirely as a complete rule, we use the basic form se. If the action was ongoing or incomplete, you would use the partitive sitä.
What happens to the word laki (law) to make it laissa?
The word laki goes through consonant gradation when a closed ending like the "in" ending (-ssa) is added. The single k disappears in the weak grade, changing the stem from laki- to lai-. Then we add the ending to get laissa.
Why isn't the adjective simply written as uusi laissa?
In Finnish, adjectives must match the grammatical case of the noun they describe. Because the noun has the "in" ending (laissa), the adjective uusi (new) also needs it. Words ending in -si change their stem to -de- before these endings, making it uudessa.

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