Word
Lämmin halaus lohdutti häntä ja teki hänet levolliseksi.
Meaning
A warm hug comforted him and made him peaceful.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Lämmin halaus lohdutti häntä ja teki hänet levolliseksi.
hän
he / she
ja
and
tehdä
to do
lämmin
warm
Questions & Answers about Lämmin halaus lohdutti häntä ja teki hänet levolliseksi.
Why is levolliseksi in the translative case here?
This showcases the "factive object complement." When you use tehdä (to make) to express that an action causes a change in state—like making someone peaceful—the resulting state takes the translative ending (-ksi). The pattern is always: tehdä + object + translative adjective.
Why does the sentence use häntä in the first half, but hänet in the second half?
The cases change because the two verbs demand different objects. Lohduttaa (to comfort) is an emotion verb, which requires a partitive object (häntä). The second action, causing a change of state with tehdä, is a completed result, so it requires a total object. For the personal pronoun hän, the total object is its specific accusative form, hänet.
If we replaced the pronoun hän with a regular noun like "the man" (mies), how would those object cases change?
For the first verb, you would still use the partitive: miestä. However, regular nouns don't have a special -t accusative ending like personal pronouns do. Instead, the total object for a singular regular noun looks exactly like the genitive case. So, the sentence would be: ...lohdutti miestä ja teki miehen levolliseksi.
What is the base form of levolliseksi, and how is it built?