Breakdown of Minä en haluaisi nähdä hämähäkkejä.
minä
I
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
haluta
to want
nähdä
to see
hämähäkki
spider
Questions & Answers about Minä en haluaisi nähdä hämähäkkejä.
Why is it en haluaisi instead of en haluaisin?
In negative sentences, the personal ending (like the -n for 'I') only goes on the negative verb (en). The main verb drops its personal ending. For the conditional mood, you just use the conditional stem on its own: haluaisi.
Why is nähdä in its basic dictionary form?
The verb haluta (to want) always takes the basic form (first infinitive) of the verb that follows it. Even though it is in the negative conditional here, the rule stays the same: haluaisi nähdä (would want to see).
Why is the word for spiders (hämähäkkejä) in the partitive case?
In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence must always be in the partitive case. Because you are saying you would not want to see them, the object takes the partitive plural form instead of the basic nominative plural (hämähäkit).
How is the partitive plural hämähäkkejä formed from the basic word hämähäkki?
For many words ending in -i, the final -i changes to an -e- in the plural. Then we add the plural marker -j- and the partitive ending -ä. So, hämähäkki + e + j + ä becomes hämähäkkejä.
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