Word
Asentaja ei työskentele eikä lepää työmaalla.
Meaning
The installer neither works nor rests at the construction site.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Asentaja ei työskentele eikä lepää työmaalla.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
levätä
to rest
työskennellä
to work
työmaa
construction site
Questions & Answers about Asentaja ei työskentele eikä lepää työmaalla.
Why do we use eikä instead of ja ei for "nor"?
In Finnish, you cannot use ja (and) directly with a negative verb. Instead, you attach the clitic -kä to the negative verb itself. Since the subject asentaja (installer) is third-person singular, the negative verb is ei, which gives us eikä.
Why do both työskentele and lepää drop their personal endings?
They are both in the connegative form because they follow negative verbs (ei and eikä). In Finnish, the negative verb takes the personal ending, so the main action verbs just use their stem form.
The dictionary form for "to rest" is levätä. Why does it have a "p" in lepää?
levätä is a type 4 verb, which means it undergoes reverse consonant gradation. The weak consonant v in the dictionary form strengthens to p when conjugated, including in this connegative form.
How is the word työmaalla constructed?
It is a compound word made of työ (work) and maa (land or ground), meaning a work site or construction site. The -lla suffix is the adessive case, meaning "at" the site.