Word
Milloin hän kertoo meille uudesta podcastista?
Meaning
When will he tell us about the new podcast?
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Milloin hän kertoo meille uudesta podcastista?
Why are both uudesta and podcastista in the elative (-sta) case here?
The verb kertoa (to tell) is a cognitive verb. In Finnish, when you tell, think, read, or hear about something, that subject matter goes into the elative case. Because adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify, both uusi (new) and the noun podcast take the -sta ending.
How does the word uusi (new) become uudesta?
Finnish words ending in -si usually change their stem before case endings are added. The basic stem for uusi is uute-. When you add the elative ending -sta, consonant gradation kicks in, softening the t to a d and giving us uudesta.
Why is there an extra -i- in podcastista?
Podcast is a foreign loanword that ends in a consonant. To make it fit Finnish pronunciation rules when adding case endings, a linking -i- is almost always added to the stem. So, podcast + i + sta becomes podcastista.
Why does the sentence use meille (to us) instead of a direct object case?