Word
En voi ruveta treenaamaan kaikkia potkuja ja lyöntejä.
Meaning
I cannot start practicing all kicks and punches.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of En voi ruveta treenaamaan kaikkia potkuja ja lyöntejä.
ja
and
ei
no / not (negative verb)
voida
can, to be able to
kaikki
all, everything, everyone
Questions & Answers about En voi ruveta treenaamaan kaikkia potkuja ja lyöntejä.
Why does this sentence use treenaamaan instead of the basic dictionary form treenata?
This is because of the verb ruveta (to start). ruveta is a phase verb that requires the following action to be in the third infinitive illative form, which ends in -maan or -mään. If the sentence used alkaa instead, you would use the first infinitive (the dictionary form): En voi alkaa treenata...
How do you build the -maan form for a verb like treenata?
treenata is a verb type 4 word. To find the stem for the third infinitive, you take the strong consonant grade stem, which you get by removing the -ta ending and doubling the final vowel: treenaa-. Then, you just add the third infinitive marker -ma- followed by the illative ending -an, giving you treenaamaan.
Could I use alkaa instead of ruveta here, and is there a difference in meaning?
Yes, you could say En voi alkaa treenata... and the meaning is essentially the same. ruveta is very common in spoken Finnish and sometimes carries a slightly more active nuance of 'getting down to business' or 'setting about' a task, but in most cases, they are interchangeable as long as you remember the grammar rules for the verb that follows them.
Why are kaikkia, potkuja, and lyöntejä in the partitive plural case?