Word
Miksi yhteistä perintöä ei suojeltaisi paremmin?
Meaning
Why would the common heritage not be protected better?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Miksi yhteistä perintöä ei suojeltaisi paremmin?
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
hyvin
well
miksi
why
yhteinen
common / shared
Questions & Answers about Miksi yhteistä perintöä ei suojeltaisi paremmin?
How do we form the negative passive conditional in ei suojeltaisi?
It comes from the verb suojella (to protect). The positive passive conditional is suojeltaisiin (would be protected). To make it negative, you use the negative word ei and drop the final -in from the verb, leaving you with ei suojeltaisi.
Why is the object yhteistä perintöä in the partitive case here? Don't passive sentences usually take a nominative object?
You are right that passive objects are often in the nominative (which looks like the basic dictionary form). However, the verb suojella is a partitive verb. This means its object must always be in the partitive case, even when the sentence is passive.
Why is the word for "better" paremmin instead of parempi?
Parempi is a comparative adjective used to describe nouns (like "a better heritage"). Paremmin is a comparative adverb used to describe how an action is done. Since it modifies the verb to describe how the heritage is protected, we must use the adverb form.
Why does the conditional passive suojeltaisiin have a "t" in it, when the present passive is suojellaan?