Word
Missä ilmoitus on? Sitä ei tehty eilen.
Meaning
Where is the report? It was not made yesterday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Missä ilmoitus on? Sitä ei tehty eilen.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
missä
where
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
Questions & Answers about Missä ilmoitus on? Sitä ei tehty eilen.
Why does the second sentence start with sitä instead of se?
Sitä is the partitive form of se (it). In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence is always in the partitive case. Because the action of making the report is negative (it was not made), the object must be in the partitive.
How does ei tehty translate to "was not made"?
This is the negative past passive. To form it, you use the negative word ei followed by the passive past participle of the verb. For tehdä (to make/do), that participle is tehty.
Is there an easy way to remember how to find the word tehty?
Yes! A great trick for finding the passive past participle is to think of the positive past passive form, which is tehtiin (was made). Just drop the final -in from tehtiin, and you are left with tehty.
What kind of word is ilmoitus?
It is a noun meaning "report", "notice", or "announcement". It is built from the verb ilmoittaa (to inform or report). Adding the -us or -ys ending is a very common way to turn verbs into nouns in Finnish.