Word
Meidän täytyy toivoa, että maamerkkiä ei unohdettaisi.
Meaning
We must hope that the landmark would not be forgotten.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Meidän täytyy toivoa, että maamerkkiä ei unohdettaisi.
ei
no / not (negative verb)
unohtaa
to forget
täytyä
to have to
että
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about Meidän täytyy toivoa, että maamerkkiä ei unohdettaisi.
How is the negative passive conditional ei unohdettaisi formed?
It is built from the verb unohtaa (to forget). First, take the positive passive conditional unohdettaisiin (would be forgotten). To make it negative, add the negative word ei and drop the final -in from the verb, resulting in ei unohdettaisi.
Why does the spelling change so much from unohtaa to unohdettaisi?
Verb type 1 verbs undergo consonant gradation when put into the passive voice. The strong consonant combination ht in the basic verb unohtaa weakens to hd in the passive stem. After that, the passive conditional marker -ttaisi- is attached to this weak stem.
Why is maamerkkiä in the partitive case rather than the nominative?
In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence must always be in the partitive case because the action does not happen. Since the verb phrase ei unohdettaisi is negative, the base word maamerkki (landmark) takes the partitive ending -ä.
Why do we use meidän instead of me at the start of the sentence?
The verb täytyy is a necessity verb expressing that someone must do something. In this structure, the person who has to do the action is always put into the genitive case. Therefore, the basic pronoun me (we) becomes meidän.