Breakdown of Mä kielsin noita poikia kiusaamasta sua.
tuo
that
minä
I
sinä
you
poika
boy
kieltää
to forbid
kiusata
to bully
Questions & Answers about Mä kielsin noita poikia kiusaamasta sua.
Why does the verb kiusata take the -masta ending here?
The verb kieltää (to forbid) requires the action being prevented to be in the third infinitive elative form, which ends in -masta or -mästä. You can think of it as forbidding those boys 'out of' bullying you.
Why is the first object noita poikia in the partitive case?
When you use kieltää to forbid someone from doing an action, the person being forbidden takes the partitive case. Here, the phrase tuo poika (that boy) becomes the partitive plural noita poikia.
Why is the second object sua also in the partitive case?
The word sua is the object of the verb kiusata (to bully). Because kiusata is a partitive verb, the person being targeted by the action must always be in the partitive case.
Are mä and sua standard written Finnish words?
These are very common spoken language forms. In formal written Finnish, this sentence would use minä instead of mä, and sinua instead of sua.
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