Breakdown of Uuden sinfonian esittää suuri kuoro, jotta kaikki voivat kuulla sen.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
uusi
new
kuulla
to hear
voida
can, to be able to
Questions & Answers about Uuden sinfonian esittää suuri kuoro, jotta kaikki voivat kuulla sen.
Why is Uuden sinfonian at the beginning of the sentence if suuri kuoro is doing the performing?
This is an Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) structure. In Finnish, moving the object (Uuden sinfonian) to the front makes it the topic of the sentence. English often uses the passive voice to do this, but Finnish just flips the word order and keeps the active verb (esittää).
Why does Uuden sinfonian end in -n instead of being in the partitive case?
The verb esittää (to perform) is expressing a complete action here. When a singular object is completely subjected to an action, it takes the accusative case, which looks exactly like the genitive case ending in -n. If the performance was an ongoing process, you would use the partitive.
Does the OVS word order also apply to the second part of the sentence?
No, the subordinate clause (jotta kaikki voivat kuulla sen) uses standard Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order. OVS topicalization is mostly used in main clauses to change the topic, while clauses starting with conjunctions like jotta (so that) usually stick to the basic SVO structure.
Why is the final word sen instead of se or sitä?