Questions & Answers about Tehdas tuottaa hyviä osia.
Why is hyviä osia in the partitive case?
Because it is a plural, indefinite object. The sentence says the factory produces good parts (an unspecified amount), not the specific good parts. When an object is a plural noun with no specific quantity, it takes the partitive case.
This lesson is about the passive voice present negative. How would we change this sentence to say Good parts are not produced?
You would use the passive negative form ei tuoteta and say Hyviä osia ei tuoteta. To make the passive negative of a type 1 verb like tuottaa, you find the passive affirmative (tuotetaan) and simply remove the -an at the end. Notice that the Finnish passive implies an unknown doer, so we drop tehdas (the factory).
The verb form here is tuottaa. What is its dictionary form (infinitive)?
The infinitive is also tuottaa. This happens with type 1 verbs. To make the he/she/it form (3rd person singular), you take the stem (tuotta-) and double the final vowel. Since the stem ends in -a, adding another -a makes the conjugated form look exactly like the infinitive!
How is the word osia built from its dictionary form?
The dictionary form is osa (a part). To make the partitive plural, we add the plural marker -i- and the partitive ending -a. The final -a of the stem is dropped before the plural -i-, resulting in osia.
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