Breakdown of Historiallista maamerkkiä ei korvattaisi modernilla rakennuksella.
ei
no / not (negative verb)
rakennus
the building
maamerkki
landmark
korvata
to replace
moderni
modern
historiallinen
historical
Questions & Answers about Historiallista maamerkkiä ei korvattaisi modernilla rakennuksella.
How do we form the negative passive conditional in ei korvattaisi?
We use the negative word ei plus the connegative form of the passive conditional. You can easily find this form by taking the affirmative passive conditional, korvattaisiin (would be replaced), and simply dropping the final -in.
Why is the object Historiallista maamerkkiä in the partitive case?
Because the sentence is negative. In an affirmative passive sentence, a whole object would usually be in the nominative case (for example: Historiallinen maamerkki korvattaisiin). However, the rule that negative sentences require a partitive object always overrules this.
Why does the sentence use the adessive ending -lla in modernilla rakennuksella to mean 'with a modern building'?
The adessive case (ending in -lla or -llä) is commonly used to express the instrument or tool used to do an action. In Finnish, replacing something 'with' something else uses this case to show by what means the replacement is happening.
What is the base verb for korvattaisi, and what verb type is it?
The infinitive is korvata (to replace, to compensate), which is a Type 4 verb. In Type 4 verbs, the passive is marked with a double -tt-, so the affirmative passive conditional becomes korvattaisiin before we drop the -in for the negative form.
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