Breakdown of Johtaja luki valituksen ja päätti hyvittää huoneen.
ja
and
lukea
to read
huone
room
johtaja
the director
päättää
to decide
hyvittää
to refund
valitus
the complaint
Questions & Answers about Johtaja luki valituksen ja päätti hyvittää huoneen.
Why do both valituksen and huoneen end in -n here?
They are total objects. Because the manager's actions are viewed as complete (reading the whole complaint and refunding the whole room) and the objects are singular, they take the genitive-like accusative ending -n.
Why is the verb hyvittää (to refund) in its basic dictionary form?
The verb päättää (to decide) requires the 1st infinitive (the basic dictionary form) when it is followed by another verb. Just like in English, you are stating what the manager decided to do.
Since this lesson covers the past passive referative construction (-tun/-tyn), how would you use it to say "The manager read that the room had been refunded"?
You would say Johtaja luki huoneen hyvitetyn. Instead of using an että (that) clause, the subject of the clause (huone) gets the genitive ending (huoneen) and the verb takes the past passive participle form, which also ends in -n (hyvitetyn).
What is the base noun for valituksen (the complaint) and how does its stem change?
The base noun is valitus, which is derived from the verb valittaa (to complain). Finnish nouns ending in -us typically change their stem to -ukse- before adding grammatical endings, which is why the object form becomes valitukse- + -n.
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