Breakdown of Tiedätkö, miksi tämä kammottava huone on niin eloton?
tämä
this
olla
to be
tietää
to know
miksi
why
huone
room
niin
so
kammottava
creepy
eloton
lifeless
Questions & Answers about Tiedätkö, miksi tämä kammottava huone on niin eloton?
Why does the verb tietää change to tiedätkö with a d?
This is an example of consonant gradation. When you conjugate the Type 1 verb tietää (to know) into the "you" form (tiedät), the syllable closes, causing the strong t to change into a weak d. Then, the question particle -kö is simply glued to the end.
Where does the adjective kammottava (creepy) come from?
It is actually a verb form! It comes from the verb kammottaa (to terrify or give the creeps). By adding the -va suffix, it becomes a present active participle, which acts exactly like an adjective in a sentence. It is just like turning "terrify" into "terrifying" in English.
How is the word eloton formed to mean "lifeless"?
It is built from the noun elo (life) and the suffix -ton, which means "without". The -ton or -tön suffix works perfectly as the Finnish equivalent of the English suffix "-less".
Since the current lesson is about negative pronouns, how would I use mikään to say "this room isn't ANY lifeless"?
You would change the verb to negative and add the pronoun, making it ...ei ole mikään eloton. The negative pronoun mikään often translates to "any" or "at all" when paired with a negative verb. Since eloton is in the basic nominative case, mikään also stays in the nominative to match it.
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