Questions & Answers about Pomo sanoo rahtia varastoitavan.
What exactly is the word varastoitavan doing in this sentence?
How do you build the form varastoitavan from the dictionary verb?
You start with the standard present passive form of the verb. For varastoida, the passive is varastoidaan (is stored). You drop the final -an and add -a to get the participle varastoitava. Finally, you add the genitive -n ending which is always required for the main verb in this construction, resulting in varastoitavan.
If I want to use standard, everyday spoken Finnish instead of this advanced structure, how would I say this?
You would unpack it into a normal että clause with a regular passive verb: Pomo sanoo, että rahtia varastoidaan. The referative construction simply compresses että varastoidaan into varastoitavan.
Why is the word for freight (rahti) in the partitive case (rahtia)?
In a passive referative construction, the object takes the exact same case it would in a regular passive sentence. Because "freight" is being treated as an uncountable mass noun here, and the action of storing is an ongoing process, the object rules dictate that it must be in the partitive case (rahtia).
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