Breakdown of Miten minä rakentaisin luottamusta?
minä
I
miten
how (in what way)
rakentaa
to build
luottamus
trust
Questions & Answers about Miten minä rakentaisin luottamusta?
Why does rakentaisin have the strong "nt" instead of the weak "nn" we see in rakennan (I build)?
For this type of verb, the conditional mood uses the strong consonant grade. Even though personal endings like -n usually trigger the weak grade (as in the present tense rakennan), the conditional marker -isi- attaches to the strong stem. That is why it stays as rakentaisin instead of "rakennaisin".
Where does the "i" in rakentaisin come from?
It comes from the conditional marker -isi-, which translates to "would" in English. When you add -isi- to the strong verb stem rakenta-, the last vowel "a" combines with it to make -aisi-. Then you just add the personal ending -n for "I".
Why is the word for trust, luottamusta, in the partitive case here?
Because "trust" is an abstract, uncountable concept. In Finnish, when you interact with an unspecified amount of something uncountable (like building trust, rather than building a physical house), the object must be in the partitive case.
What is the base dictionary form of luottamusta?