Breakdown of Kokous on peruutettu, mutta huone on vuokrattu.
olla
to be
mutta
but
huone
room
kokous
meeting (formal)
vuokrata
to rent
peruuttaa
to cancel
Questions & Answers about Kokous on peruutettu, mutta huone on vuokrattu.
What exactly are the words peruutettu and vuokrattu doing in this sentence?
They are passive past participles, which means they act like adjectives describing the current state of something. Combined with the verb on (is), they tell us the result of an action: the meeting is currently in a canceled state, and the room is in a rented state.
Are on peruutettu and on vuokrattu the same as the regular past passive?
How are the forms peruutettu and vuokrattu made?
They are formed from the verbs peruuttaa (to cancel) and vuokrata (to rent). You add a passive participle ending, which is usually -ttu or -tty. You might already recognize these exact forms, because they are also used to make the negative past passive, like in ei vuokrattu (was not rented).
Why are kokous and huone in their basic dictionary forms?
In this specific structure describing a state, the thing being described acts as the grammatical subject. Since it is the subject, it stays in the basic nominative case without any extra endings.
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