Breakdown of Hänen ei tarvitse murehtia työtä.
hän
he / she
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
työ
work
tarvita
to need
murehtia
to worry
Questions & Answers about Hänen ei tarvitse murehtia työtä.
Why does the sentence start with Hänen instead of Hän?
In Finnish, expressions of necessity and non-necessity like ei tarvitse (does not need to) require their subject to be in the genitive case. You can think of it literally as 'For him, there is no need to...'.
Why is the verb form tarvitse instead of tarvitsee?
In necessity sentences, the main verb is always locked into the third-person singular. Because this is a negative sentence, we use the negative word ei, and the main verb drops its personal ending, leaving just the base stem tarvitse.
Why is the word for work, työtä, in the partitive case?
There is no word for 'about' in the Finnish sentence. How does that work?
In English, we need the preposition 'about' to connect 'worry' to 'work'. In Finnish, the grammar handles this directly: the verb murehtia combined with the partitive object työtä naturally means 'to worry about work'.
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