Breakdown of Huomaatko lastia ja lähetystä jätettävän ulos?
ja
and
ulos
out
jättää
to leave (something behind)
huomata
to notice
lasti
cargo
lähetys
shipment
Questions & Answers about Huomaatko lastia ja lähetystä jätettävän ulos?
How does jätettävän translate to 'that... are being left'?
Jätettävän is the present passive participle of the verb jättää (to leave). In this lesson's referative construction, it replaces a full että (that) clause. It acts like 'being left', allowing the sentence to shrink 'Do you notice that they are being left' into 'Do you notice [them] being left'.
How exactly do you build the form jätettävän?
Start with the standard present passive form: jätetään (is left). Remove the final -än to find the passive stem jätettä-, and then add the participle ending -vän (which is the present participle marker -vä plus the genitive -n required by this grammatical structure).
Why are lastia and lähetystä in the partitive case here?
They are the objects of the passive action 'being left'. While passive objects are often in the nominative case, they take the partitive if the action is currently ongoing or incomplete. Because the cargo and shipment are in the process of being left outside right now, the partitive is used, just as it would be in the full clause: että lastia ja lähetystä jätetään ulos.
Why does the sentence use the directional word ulos (to outside) instead of the location word ulkona (at outside)?
In Finnish, the verb jättää (to leave) behaves like a movement verb. You do not leave things 'at' a place, you leave them 'into' a place. Therefore, you must use the directional ulos instead of the static location word ulkona.
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