Breakdown of Me luultiin tota keksintöä vaarattomaksi.
tuo
that
me
we
luulla
to think, to suppose
keksintö
invention
vaaraton
harmless
Questions & Answers about Me luultiin tota keksintöä vaarattomaksi.
Why is vaarattomaksi in the translative case (-ksi)?
When you use the verb luulla (to think, to mistakenly believe), expressing what you thought something was requires a specific structure. The object is put in the partitive case (tota keksintöä) and the opinion or state is put in the translative case (vaarattomaksi).
I learned that "we thought" is me luulimme. Why does this sentence use me luultiin?
Me luultiin is the spoken language way to say "we thought". In everyday spoken Finnish, the "we" form is almost always made by pairing the pronoun me with the passive form of the verb. Since this is in the past tense, it uses the past passive form luultiin.
What is tota the spoken form of?
It is the spoken language version of tuota, which is the partitive form of the demonstrative pronoun tuo (that). It matches the partitive noun keksintöä that follows it.
How is the word vaarattomaksi formed?
It starts with the noun vaara (danger). Adding the suffix -ton (meaning "without") makes it the adjective vaaraton (harmless). When we add case endings, -ton changes to its stem -ttoma-, and finally we add the translative ending -ksi to get vaarattomaksi.
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