Breakdown of Turisti rakastui lämpimään ilmastoon.
lämmin
warm
turisti
the tourist
rakastua
to fall in love with
ilmasto
climate
Questions & Answers about Turisti rakastui lämpimään ilmastoon.
Why does the sentence use the illative case for "lämpimään ilmastoon" when the English translation says "with"?
The Finnish verb rakastua (to fall in love) always requires the illative case (the "into" case). While in English you fall in love with something, in Finnish you fall in love into it. Both the noun ilmastoon and its describing adjective lämpimään must take this ending.
What is the dictionary form of lämpimään and why does it change so much?
The basic word for warm is lämmin. Words ending in -in are a bit tricky: their word stem changes to -imä- or -ime- when you add endings. The stem here is lämpimä- (notice how a hidden p appears!). To form the illative case, you double the last vowel and add -n, resulting in lämpimään.
What is the difference between rakastaa and rakastua?
Rakastaa means "to love" (a state of being) and it requires the partitive case. Rakastua means "to fall in love" (an action of entering a state) and it requires the illative case. The -u- in the middle of a verb often adds this meaning of "becoming" something.
How do we know rakastui is in the past tense?
The basic verb form is rakastua. To make the past tense (imperfect) for "he/she/it", we take the verb stem rakastu- and add the past tense marker -i. Because the stem ends in -u, the -i simply attaches to the end of the stem without deleting it, giving us rakastui.
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