Breakdown of Rakastan tätä taidokkaasti tehtyä korua.
tämä
this
rakastaa
to love
tehdä
to do
koru
the piece of jewelry
Questions & Answers about Rakastan tätä taidokkaasti tehtyä korua.
Why does taidokkaasti have to come right before tehtyä?
This is the core of your current lesson! When a participle like tehtyä (made) acts as an adjective describing a noun, any words that describe how, where, or by whom the action was done must be placed strictly before the participle. You can think of taidokkaasti tehtyä as a single, tightly packed block meaning '[skillfully made]'.
Why are the words tätä, tehtyä, and korua all in the partitive case?
The verb rakastaa (to love) always requires its object to be in the partitive case. The main noun is korua (jewelry), so its modifiers—the pronoun tämä (this) and the participle tehty (made)—must agree with it and take the partitive endings, becoming tätä and tehtyä.
Why doesn't the word taidokkaasti get a partitive ending to match the noun?
Because taidokkaasti (skillfully) is an adverb, not an adjective. It is formed by adding the adverb ending -sti (similar to '-ly' in English) to the adjective taidokas (skillful). Adverbs modify the action—in this case, how the jewelry was made—and they never decline to agree with noun cases.
How is the word tehtyä formed from the verb tehdä?