Breakdown of Me keskustelimme tästä odotuksesta eilen.
tämä
this
me
we
eilen
yesterday
keskustella
to discuss
Questions & Answers about Me keskustelimme tästä odotuksesta eilen.
How does the word odotuksesta relate to the lesson's topic of making nouns from verbs?
Its base form is odotus (expectation), which comes from the verb odottaa (to expect, to wait). To form this noun, you take the weak verb stem odota-, drop the final vowel, and add the -us suffix. This turns the action of expecting into a noun.
Why does the ending of odotus change to -ukse- in the middle of the word?
When a noun ends in -us or -ys and is derived from a verb, its stem almost always changes to -ukse- or -ykse- before you can add case endings. So, the base word odotus becomes the stem odotukse-, and then we add the case ending -sta.
Why do we use the elative case (-sta) for tästä odotuksesta?
The verb keskustella (to discuss) requires the topic of conversation to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). Since we are discussing "this expectation", both the pronoun tämä (this) and the noun odotus must be put into the elative form.
Does the root verb odottaa affect the meaning of odotus in other ways?
Yes! Because the verb odottaa translates to both "to expect" and "to wait", the noun odotus can mean either "expectation" or "waiting" (such as the wait for a bus, or expecting a baby). In this sentence, "expectation" makes the most sense in context.