Breakdown of Rikas pomo lahjoittaisi paljon rahaa hyväntekeväisyyteen.
paljon
a lot
raha
money
pomo
boss
lahjoittaa
to donate
Questions & Answers about Rikas pomo lahjoittaisi paljon rahaa hyväntekeväisyyteen.
How do we get lahjoittaisi ("would donate") from the dictionary form lahjoittaa?
To make the conditional mood ("would do something"), we use the marker -isi-. For Verb Type 1, we find the stem by dropping the very last -a from the dictionary form, giving us lahjoitta-. Then we just add -isi to that stem. This gives us lahjoittaisi.
Why doesn't the verb lahjoittaisi have a personal ending for "the boss"?
In the regular present tense, the third-person singular ("he/she/it") doubles the last vowel of the stem (like hän lahjoittaa). However, in the conditional mood, you never double the final -i of the -isi- marker. The third-person singular conditional form is simply the stem plus -isi, with no extra letters added at the end.
Why is the word for money (rahaa) in the partitive case here?
It follows the word paljon (a lot). In Finnish, paljon always requires the word that comes after it to be in the partitive case, similar to saying "a lot of money" in English. The basic dictionary form is raha, and adding the partitive -a makes it rahaa.
The word hyväntekeväisyyteen (to charity) is quite long! What is its basic form and what case is it in?