Breakdown of Hän piti yritystä menestyksenä ja sijoitti siihen.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
hän
he / she
ja
and
yritys
company
sijoittaa
to invest
pitää
to consider (as)
menestys
success
Questions & Answers about Hän piti yritystä menestyksenä ja sijoitti siihen.
Why does pitää mean considered here instead of liked?
The verb pitää has several meanings depending on the cases used with it. While pitää followed by the elative case means to like, using pitää with a partitive object (yritystä) and an essive complement (menestyksenä) changes the meaning to considering something as something.
Why are yritystä and menestyksenä in different cases?
This is the required structure for expressing an opinion with pitää. The thing you are judging takes the partitive case (yritystä), and the label or state you are assigning to it takes the essive case (menestyksenä, meaning as a success).
Could I use the translative case (menestykseksi) instead of the essive here?
Not with the verb pitää, which strictly requires the essive case for this meaning. However, if this sentence used a verb like luulla (to suppose or believe), you would use the translative case for the complement instead.
Why is siihen used instead of sitä after sijoitti?
The verb sijoittaa (to invest) requires the target of the investment to be in the illative case, which expresses movement into something. Here, siihen is the illative form of se (it), literally meaning he invested into it.
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