Breakdown of Työtön mies haluaa kouluttautua uudelleen.
mies
man
haluta
to want
uudelleen
again / anew (doing something over)
työtön
unemployed
Questions & Answers about Työtön mies haluaa kouluttautua uudelleen.
The verb kouluttautua looks quite long. What are its building blocks?
It starts with the noun koulu (school). That becomes the verb kouluttaa (to train or educate someone). By adding the reflexive suffix -utu-, it becomes kouluttautua, meaning to train oneself.
How does the word työtön mean unemployed?
It combines the word työ (work) with the suffix -tön, which means without or -less. So työtön literally means workless.
The English translation uses the prefix re- for retrain. How is that expressed in the Finnish sentence?
Finnish expresses this with the adverb uudelleen, which comes from uusi (new) and means anew or over again. Placed after the verb, it gives the meaning of doing the action over again.
Why doesn't the verb kouluttautua take an object here?
Because the -utu- suffix makes it a reflexive verb, meaning the action is already directed at the subject himself. If he wanted to train someone else, he would use the base verb kouluttaa and we would need an object to state who is being trained.