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Questions & Answers about Hälytys tehtiin heti.
How do we form the passive past in tehtiin?
Tehtiin comes from the verb tehdä (to do / to make). To form the past passive for Type 2 verbs like this, you drop the final -dä from the dictionary form and add -tiin. So, teh- + -tiin becomes tehtiin (was done / was made).
Why does the translation say the alarm was 'raised' when tehdä usually means 'to do' or 'to make'?
Languages often pair different verbs with the same noun. In Finnish, you 'make' an alarm (tehdä hälytys), whereas in English you 'raise' or 'sound' an alarm. Because tehtiin is in the passive voice, this literally translates to 'The alarm was made immediately.'
Why is hälytys in its basic dictionary form here, rather than an object form?
When a sentence is in the passive voice, the object (the thing receiving the action) never takes the genitive -n ending. Because the action of making the alarm was fully completed, it takes the basic nominative form (hälytys) instead of hälytyksen.