Word
Ostan pähkinätöntä leipää, koska olen allerginen.
Meaning
I buy nut-free bread because I am allergic.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Ostan pähkinätöntä leipää, koska olen allerginen.
olla
to be
koska
because
leipä
bread
ostaa
to buy
Questions & Answers about Ostan pähkinätöntä leipää, koska olen allerginen.
How is the word pähkinätöntä formed?
It starts with the noun pähkinä (nut). Adding the suffix -tön creates the adjective pähkinätön (nut-free). The word is then put into the partitive case, making it pähkinätöntä.
What is the rule for putting -ton or -tön adjectives into the partitive case?
When an adjective ends in -ton or -tön, its partitive form ends in -tonta or -töntä. That is why pähkinätön becomes pähkinätöntä to match the partitive noun leipää.
Why are we using the partitive case for pähkinätöntä leipää in this sentence?
The verb ostaa (to buy) takes a partitive object here because bread is being treated as an uncountable mass noun. You are buying an unspecified amount (some bread), rather than one whole, specific loaf.
Why is it allerginen and not allergia?
Allerginen is the adjective (allergic), while allergia is the noun (allergy). You must use the adjective here because you are describing a state: I am allergic (olen allerginen).