Word
Millainen pelle tekee temppuja ja naurattaa yleisöä?
Meaning
What kind of clown does tricks and makes the audience laugh?
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Millainen pelle tekee temppuja ja naurattaa yleisöä?
ja
and
tehdä
to do
yleisö
the audience
temppu
trick
Questions & Answers about Millainen pelle tekee temppuja ja naurattaa yleisöä?
Why is Millainen in the basic nominative case here?
It modifies the subject of the sentence, pelle (clown). Because the clown is the one performing the actions, pelle is in the nominative case. Adjectives like millainen must always match the case of the noun they describe.
Can I use minkälainen instead of millainen in this sentence?
Absolutely! Millainen and minkälainen both mean "what kind of" and are completely interchangeable. Millainen is slightly more standard in written text, while minkälainen is very common in everyday spoken Finnish.
The verb for "to laugh" is nauraa. How does the verb naurattaa work here?
Naurattaa is a causative verb, meaning it describes causing someone else to do an action. By adding the -ttaa ending to the base verb nauraa (to laugh), the meaning changes to "to make someone laugh" or "to amuse".
Why are the objects temppuja and yleisöä both in the partitive case?
Temppuja (tricks) is in the partitive plural because the clown is doing an unspecified number of tricks, rather than "all the tricks". Yleisöä (audience) is partitive singular because verbs that express causing a feeling or emotion, like naurattaa, generally require a partitive object.