Breakdown of Rajaton palvelu sisältää sekä ruokaa että vettä.
ruoka
food
vesi
water
että
that (conjunction)
palvelu
the service
sekä
both
sisältää
to include
rajaton
unlimited
Questions & Answers about Rajaton palvelu sisältää sekä ruokaa että vettä.
How do sekä and että work together in this sentence?
Together, sekä ... että mean "both ... and". While you might already know että as the word for "that" (like in "I know that..."), when it is paired with sekä, it acts as the "and" part of the phrase.
Why are ruokaa and vettä in the partitive case instead of the basic nominative case?
They are the objects of the verb sisältää (to include). Since food and water are uncountable mass nouns here (the service includes an unspecified amount of them), they must be in the partitive case: ruokaa and vettä.
Why does the word for water, vesi, change to vettä in the partitive?
Old Finnish words ending in -si (like vesi or uusi) usually change the -si to -te- or -t- before adding an ending. For the partitive, vesi drops the vowel and takes the ending -tä to make vettä.
How is the word rajaton (unlimited) formed?
It is made from the noun raja (limit or border) plus the suffix -ton, which means "without" or "-less". So rajaton literally means "limitless".
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