Breakdown of Me emme uskaltaisi katsoa noita haita.
me
we
nuo
those (over there)
ei
no / not (negative verb)
katsoa
to watch
Questions & Answers about Me emme uskaltaisi katsoa noita haita.
How do we form the negative conditional "would not dare" in this sentence?
To make the negative conditional, use the personal negative verb (like emme for "we") and the conditional form of the main verb. You get this form by taking the verb stem of uskaltaa (to dare), which is uskalta-, and adding the conditional marker -isi. There are no personal endings on uskaltaisi because the negative verb emme already tells us who is doing the action.
Why are "those sharks" translated to noita haita instead of the basic plural form?
The verb katsoa (to look at) is a partitive verb, meaning its object must always be in the partitive case. Because we are talking about multiple sharks, both the pronoun (noita) and the noun (haita) must be in the partitive plural.
Is noita the plural form of the word tuo (that)?
Yes! The demonstrative pronoun tuo (that) is irregular. When it is put into the partitive plural to mean "those" (as an object of a partitive verb), it changes to noita.
Why does hai (shark) take the -ta ending here?
To form the partitive case for a word ending in a diphthong (two vowels sounded together, like the ai in hai), you must add -ta or -tä. Because of vowel harmony with the back vowel a, we use -ta, resulting in haita.