Breakdown of Miksi laatua ei tarkisteta tarkasti?
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
miksi
why
tarkistaa
to check
laatu
the quality
tarkasti
carefully (closely, attentively)
Questions & Answers about Miksi laatua ei tarkisteta tarkasti?
How do we form the negative passive ei tarkisteta?
The base verb here is tarkistaa (to check). In the positive passive present, it would be tarkistetaan (is checked). To make it negative, you use the negative word ei and simply drop the final -an from the positive passive form. That leaves you with the negative passive stem, resulting in ei tarkisteta (is not checked).
Why is the word for quality in the partitive case (laatua)?
In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence is almost always in the partitive case. Because the action of checking is not happening to the quality, the object (laatu) must take the partitive ending -a to become laatua.
Tarkisteta and tarkasti look very similar. Are they related?
Yes! They both come from the same root word, the adjective tarkka (exact or careful). Tarkisteta is a verb form coming from tarkistaa (to check, literally 'to make exact'), while tarkasti is an adverb meaning 'carefully' or 'exactly'. You usually form adverbs in Finnish by adding the ending -sti to an adjective's stem.
Could I add a phrase like 'by the manager' to this passive sentence?
No, you generally shouldn't. The Finnish passive voice is used specifically when the person doing the action is unknown, unimportant, or refers to people in general. Unlike in English, you cannot naturally add a 'by someone' phrase to a Finnish passive sentence.
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