Breakdown of Hyvä joukkoliikenne vähentäisi päästöjä.
hyvä
good
päästö
emission
vähentää
to reduce
joukkoliikenne
public transport
Questions & Answers about Hyvä joukkoliikenne vähentäisi päästöjä.
Why isn't the verb in the passive conditional, since that's what we are currently studying?
vähentäisi is in the active conditional ("it would reduce") because the sentence has a clear subject performing the action: Hyvä joukkoliikenne. The passive conditional is used when the actor is unmentioned or generalized. If you wanted to use the passive conditional to say "Emissions would be reduced", you would use the form vähennettäisiin.
Why is the object päästöjä in the partitive case?
We use the partitive plural (-jä) because the emissions being reduced are an undefined amount. Good public transport would reduce some emissions, not a specific, total set of emissions. Verbs of changing amount like vähentää (to reduce) and lisätä (to increase) very often take partitive objects.
How is the conditional form vähentäisi built?
The infinitive is vähentää (to reduce). To form the conditional, you take the strong verb stem (vähentä-) and add the conditional marker -isi-. Since this is the third-person singular (it) form, no personal ending is added, and the final -ä of the stem is dropped because it bumps into the -i of the conditional marker.
What are the parts of the compound word joukkoliikenne?
It is made of joukko (crowd, group, mass) and liikenne (traffic, transport). Together, they form the standard Finnish word for public transport or mass transit.
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