Word
Käskettekö näyttelijää siirtämään tuon lavasteen?
Meaning
Do you order the actor to move that set piece?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Käskettekö näyttelijää siirtämään tuon lavasteen?
tuo
that
siirtää
to move
näyttelijä
the actor
käskeä
to command (tell someone to do something)
Questions & Answers about Käskettekö näyttelijää siirtämään tuon lavasteen?
Why is näyttelijää in the partitive case here?
With verbs of ordering, requesting, or advising (like käskeä, pyytää, and neuvoa), the person you are directing the command to must be in the partitive case. You can think of it as giving an order towards the actor.
Why do we use the -mään form (siirtämään) instead of the basic dictionary form (siirtää) for 'to move'?
In Finnish, the main verb dictates the form of the verb that follows it. Verbs like käskeä require the next verb to be in the 3rd infinitive illative form, which ends in -maan or -mään. You are essentially ordering someone into doing an action.
If näyttelijää is the object of the ordering, why is tuon lavasteen in the genitive-looking accusative case?
The phrase tuon lavasteen is the direct object of the verb siirtämään (to move), not the main verb käskeä. Because moving the set piece is a complete action, its object takes the total object case (accusative). For singular nouns, this looks exactly like the genitive, ending in -n.
What is the dictionary form of lavasteen?