Word
Näitä uhanalaisia lajeja ei ole suojeltu.
Meaning
These endangered species have not been protected.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Näitä uhanalaisia lajeja ei ole suojeltu.
olla
to be
nämä
these
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
uhanalainen
endangered
Questions & Answers about Näitä uhanalaisia lajeja ei ole suojeltu.
How is the perfect tense passive negative formed in ei ole suojeltu?
It is made up of three parts: the negative verb ei, the auxiliary verb ole (which stays in its base form and never changes in the passive), and the passive past participle of the main verb, suojeltu. Together they mean "has/have not been protected."
How do we form the passive past participle suojeltu?
The base verb is suojella (to protect), which is a type 3 verb. To form the passive past participle for type 3 verbs, you remove the infinitive ending -la or -lä and add -tu or -ty. So, suojel- + -tu becomes suojeltu.
Why is näitä uhanalaisia lajeja in the partitive case rather than the nominative?
In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence must always be in the partitive case. Even though an affirmative passive sentence often uses the nominative for its object, the negative word ei overrides that rule, forcing the entire phrase näitä uhanalaisia lajeja into the partitive plural.
In the English translation, "these endangered species" is the subject. Is it the subject in Finnish too?
No, Finnish passive sentences do not have a grammatical subject. The passive voice implies that an unspecified "someone" didn't protect them, making näitä uhanalaisia lajeja the grammatical object of the sentence, which is why it follows object case rules.