Breakdown of Sisältääkö jäsenyys sekä auton että pyörän?
auto
car
pyörä
bike
että
that (conjunction)
jäsenyys
the membership
sekä
both
sisältää
to include
Questions & Answers about Sisältääkö jäsenyys sekä auton että pyörän?
How do you say "both ... and" in this sentence?
You use the pair sekä ... että. It works just like "both ... and" in English to link two things. Here, it links the two objects the membership includes: sekä auton että pyörän (both a car and a bicycle).
I know että usually means "that". Does it mean something different here?
Yes! While että on its own usually means "that" (like in luulen, että... - "I think that..."), when it is paired with sekä, it becomes part of a fixed phrase. Together, sekä ... että always means "both ... and".
Why do auto and pyörä end in -n (auton, pyörän)?
They are the objects of the verb sisältää (to include). Because the membership includes one whole car and one whole bicycle (a total object), they take the accusative case, which looks exactly like the genitive case ending in -n. Notice that both words in the sekä ... että structure must be in the same case.
How is the question formed at the beginning of the sentence?
The sentence starts with the verb sisältää (includes) and adds the question particle -kö to make sisältääkö (does it include?). Because of vowel harmony, we use -kö with the front vowels (ä) instead of -ko.
Where does the word jäsenyys (membership) come from?
It comes from the noun jäsen, which means "member". The ending -yys is used to create abstract nouns, very similar to the English ending "-ship" (member -> membership).
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