Breakdown of Miksi sananvapautta rajoitetaan tässä maassa?
tämä
this
miksi
why
maa
country
rajoittaa
to restrict
sananvapaus
freedom of speech
Questions & Answers about Miksi sananvapautta rajoitetaan tässä maassa?
Why is sananvapautta in the partitive case? I thought objects in passive sentences drop their case ending and look like the basic dictionary form.
You are right that total objects usually lose their genitive ending and become nominative in passive sentences. However, the verb rajoittaa (to restrict) is a partitive verb, meaning its object must always be in the partitive case. The passive object rule never overrides partitive verbs, so sananvapaus stays in the partitive as sananvapautta.
Why does the passive verb rajoitetaan have only one t in the middle, when the basic verb rajoittaa has two?
This is due to consonant gradation. Passive forms in Finnish are always built on the weak stem of the verb. For the verb rajoittaa, the strong double -tt- weakens to a single -t- before adding the passive ending.
What are the parts of the compound word sananvapautta?
Why is it tässä maassa instead of tämä maassa?
In Finnish, modifier words like "this" must agree with the case of the noun they are attached to. Because maa is in the inessive case (maassa, meaning "in the country"), the pronoun tämä (this) must also change to its inessive form, becoming tässä.
Learn Miksi sananvapautta rajoitetaan tässä maassa and more in Finnish
All course content and exercises are completely free — no paywalls, no trial periods, no signup needed.
- ✓ Practice with interactive exercises
- ✓ Track your progress with spaced repetition
- ✓Learn at your own pace — completely free