Questions & Answers about Me luotamme tähän hallitukseen.
How does the word hallitus relate to our current lesson on noun derivation?
It is built from the verb hallita (to rule, to govern). By adding the suffix -us, the verb is turned into a noun representing the action or the entity doing the action. Therefore, the governing body becomes hallitus (government).
Why are the words for "this government" in the illative case (tähän hallitukseen)?
The verb luottaa (to trust) always requires the illative (into) case. While in English you trust somebody, in Finnish you trust "into" somebody or something. Because of this rule, both the pronoun tämä (this) and the noun hallitus must take their illative forms.
What happens to the stem of hallitus to make it hallitukseen?
Nouns ending in -us or -ys generally change their final -s to -kse- before case endings. The basic stem of hallitus becomes hallitukse-. To form the illative case, we lengthen the last vowel and add -n, resulting in hallitukseen.
Why does luotamme have only one t when the dictionary form is luottaa?
This is caused by consonant gradation. Adding the "we" ending -mme closes the final syllable of the word. A closed syllable forces the strong double tt to weaken into a single t.