Word
Me annoimme salaperäisen laatikon jollekulle tuntemattomalle.
Meaning
We gave the mysterious box to someone unknown.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Me annoimme salaperäisen laatikon jollekulle tuntemattomalle.
me
we
laatikko
box
antaa
to give
joku
somebody, someone
Questions & Answers about Me annoimme salaperäisen laatikon jollekulle tuntemattomalle.
How do we get the word jollekulle from joku?
joku (someone) is a special pronoun because both halves of the word take the case ending. Here, we need the allative case (the -lle ending). The first half jo- becomes jolle-, and the second half -ku becomes -kulle. Put them together, and you get jollekulle!
Why are jollekulle and tuntemattomalle in the allative (the -lle) case?
The verb antaa (to give) requires the recipient of the action to be in the allative case, which translates to "to [someone]". Because tuntematon (unknown) describes joku (someone), they must both match and take the -lle ending.
What happens to the word tuntematon when we add the -lle ending?
tuntematon (unknown) ends in the suffix -ton (meaning "without"). When you add a case ending to a word ending in -ton, its stem changes to -ttoma-. Then you just add the -lle ending, giving us tuntemattomalle.
Why do salaperäinen and laatikko both end in -n here?