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Pakkausta ei hyväksytä tehtaassa.

Pakkausta ei hyväksytä tehtaassa.
The package is not accepted in the factory.
From Lesson 105:Present passive negative (ei tehdä)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Pakkausta ei hyväksytä tehtaassa.

How is the negative passive ei hyväksytä formed here?
To form the negative present passive, you take the affirmative passive and drop the final -an or -än. The affirmative passive for is accepted is hyväksytään. Dropping the -än leaves the passive stem hyväksytä. Add the negative word ei in front, and you get ei hyväksytä.
Why is the word for package in the partitive case (pakkausta)?
In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence is always in the partitive case. Because the package is not being accepted, the basic word pakkaus takes the partitive ending -ta to become pakkausta.
The dictionary form for factory is tehdas. How does it become tehtaassa?
Tehdas belongs to a group of words ending in -as. When adding an ending like the in-case ending -ssa, two things happen: the -as changes to -aa-, and the consonants undergo reverse consonant gradation (hd changes to the strong grade ht). This gives us the stem tehtaa-, making the final word tehtaassa.
What is the basic verb form of hyväksytä?
Hyväksytä is just the passive stem. The basic dictionary form is hyväksyä (to accept). It is a verb type 1, which is why its affirmative passive is formed by finding the weak stem (hyväksy-) and adding -tään, resulting in hyväksytään.

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