Breakdown of He vastustavat joko tätä uudistusta tai tuota.
tämä
this
tuo
that
he
they
tai
or
joko
either
uudistus
reform
vastustaa
to oppose
Questions & Answers about He vastustavat joko tätä uudistusta tai tuota.
How do we use joko ... tai in this sentence?
The pair joko ... tai means "either ... or". You place joko right before the first option (tätä uudistusta) and tai right before the second option (tuota). They link two choices of the same grammatical type—in this case, the two objects of the sentence.
Why are the objects tätä uudistusta and tuota in the partitive case?
Because of the verb vastustaa (to oppose). It is a partitive verb, meaning its object must always be in the partitive case. Both halves of the "either ... or" phrase must follow this rule.
How is the partitive uudistusta formed from the base word uudistus (reform)?
For nouns ending in -us or -ys, you form the partitive simply by adding the ending -ta or -tä directly to the basic dictionary form. So, uudistus + ta becomes uudistusta.
The English translation says "that one", but the Finnish sentence just says tuota. Why is there no word for "one"?
In Finnish, demonstrative pronouns like tämä (this) and tuo (that) are often used on their own without needing a placeholder word like "one". Tuota simply means "that" in the partitive case, and the noun it refers back to (uudistusta) is easily understood from the context.
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