Breakdown of Katastrofi oli lähellä, mutta avaruusalusta ei olisi hylätty.
olla
to be
mutta
but
ei
no / not (negative verb)
hylätä
to reject / to abandon
Questions & Answers about Katastrofi oli lähellä, mutta avaruusalusta ei olisi hylätty.
How does ei olisi hylätty translate to "would not have been abandoned"?
This is the negative conditional perfect passive, which is the focus of this lesson. It is built with three parts: the negative word ei, the conditional auxiliary verb olisi, and the passive past participle hylätty (abandoned). Note that in passive sentences, this auxiliary verb is always exactly olisi.
Why is avaruusalusta in the partitive case here?
Because the verb phrase is negative. In Finnish, if the action is negative, the object must be in the partitive case. The basic word avaruusalus (spacecraft) becomes avaruusalusta. If the sentence were positive ("the spacecraft would have been abandoned"), the object would be in the nominative case (avaruusalus).
How do we form the passive past participle hylätty?
The base verb is hylätä (to abandon or reject), which is a verb type 4 word. To form the passive past participle for type 4, 5, and 6 verbs, you take the infinitive, drop the final -a or -ä, and add -ttu or -tty. Dropping the -ä from hylätä and adding -tty gives us hylätty.
Is lähellä related to the prefix lähi- that I've seen in other words?