Word
Käynnistin tietokoneen uudelleen, mutta en voi yhdistää.
Meaning
I restarted the computer, but I cannot connect.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Käynnistin tietokoneen uudelleen, mutta en voi yhdistää.
mutta
but
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
tietokone
computer
voida
can, to be able to
Questions & Answers about Käynnistin tietokoneen uudelleen, mutta en voi yhdistää.
Since this lesson is about joten, how would the sentence change if we used it instead of mutta?
Mutta means 'but' and shows a contrast. Joten means 'so' or 'therefore' and shows a consequence. If you said Käynnistin tietokoneen uudelleen, joten en voi yhdistää, it would mean 'I restarted the computer, therefore I cannot connect' — making it sound like restarting the computer is the reason the connection is broken!
How do you say 'restart' in Finnish? Is käynnistää uudelleen a single concept?
Finnish doesn't have a direct equivalent to the English prefix 're-'. Instead, you use the verb käynnistää (to start a machine or program) alongside the adverb uudelleen (again or anew). They work together to mean 'restart', but they remain separate words.
Why is tietokone written as tietokoneen with an -n ending here?
It is the total object of the sentence. Because the action of restarting the computer is complete and the sentence is affirmative, the object takes the accusative case, which looks exactly like the genitive case (adding -n).
Does yhdistää (to connect) need an object, like 'connect to the internet'?
Normally, yhdistää requires an object because you are connecting something to something else. However, in modern IT and networking contexts, it is perfectly natural to use it without an object to simply mean 'to establish a connection', just as we do in English.