Breakdown of Tämä pajassa tehty tuoli on erinomainen.
tämä
this
olla
to be
tuoli
chair
tehdä
to do
erinomainen
excellent
paja
workshop
Questions & Answers about Tämä pajassa tehty tuoli on erinomainen.
Why is the word order pajassa tehty tuoli instead of tuoli tehty pajassa?
In Finnish, a participle like tehty (made) acts like an adjective, so it must come directly before the noun it describes (tuoli). Furthermore, any words that give more information about the participle, such as where the making happened (pajassa), must come directly before the participle itself. The literal order is 'the in-the-workshop made chair'.
What form of the verb is tehty here?
Tehty is the passive past participle of the verb tehdä (to make/do). It is used here because it describes what was done to the object without specifying who did it. In this sentence, it behaves exactly like an adjective describing the chair.
Does tämä (this) point to the workshop or the chair?
Tämä belongs to tuoli (the chair). Just like in English, demonstrative pronouns like tämä go at the very beginning of the whole noun phrase. It brackets the entire attribute block: 'this [made-in-the-workshop] chair'.
If we were talking about "these chairs" in the plural, how would the phrase tämä pajassa tehty tuoli change?
The main parts of the noun phrase must agree, so it would become nämä pajassa tehdyt tuolit. Notice that pajassa (in the workshop) stays exactly the same, but the participle tehdyt gets a plural -t ending to match nämä and tuolit.
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