Breakdown of Paljastaapa hän raskauden aikaisin!
hän
he / she
aikaisin
early
paljastaa
to reveal
raskaus
the pregnancy
Questions & Answers about Paljastaapa hän raskauden aikaisin!
How does the -pa ending on paljastaapa change the meaning of the sentence?
Why is the verb paljastaapa placed before the subject hän?
In Finnish, the word carrying the emphatic -pa or -pä clitic is almost always moved to the very beginning of the clause. Without the clitic, the normal word order would be Hän paljastaa raskauden aikaisin.
Why is the object raskauden in the genitive case instead of the partitive?
Revealing a pregnancy is viewed as a complete action. You either reveal it or you do not, rather than revealing an ongoing or partial amount of it. Because the action is complete, the object takes the total object ending -n.
What is the dictionary form of raskauden and how does it get that -d-?
The base word is raskaus (pregnancy). Nouns ending in -us usually change their stem to -ude- before adding endings like the genitive -n. It is related to the adjective raskas, which means heavy.
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