Breakdown of Tuo rohkea teko teki koko vuoden unohtumattomaksi.
tuo
that
tehdä
to do
vuosi
year
koko
whole
rohkea
brave
teko
act
unohtumaton
unforgettable
Questions & Answers about Tuo rohkea teko teki koko vuoden unohtumattomaksi.
Why does the word unohtumattomaksi end in -ksi?
The ending -ksi is the translative case. In Finnish, when you use the verb tehdä (to make) to express that an action changes an object into a certain state, that resulting state must be in the translative case. Here, the act changed the year into being unforgettable.
Why is the word for year in the genitive-like form (vuoden) instead of the partitive?
Here, vuoden is the total object of the sentence. The brave act made the entire year unforgettable, not just an undefined part of it, and the action is viewed as completed. Because the sentence has a normal nominative subject (Tuo rohkea teko), this total object takes the -n ending.
How is the complex word unohtumattomaksi built?
It is built from the verb unohtaa (to forget). Adding the negative suffix -maton creates the adjective unohtumaton (unforgettable). When we put it into the translative case, the stem changes to unohtumattoma- before adding the -ksi ending.
Why doesn't the word koko (whole) have an -n ending to match vuoden?
The word koko is an exception to the normal agreement rules because it is an indeclinable word. This means it never takes any case endings whatsoever, regardless of the case of the noun it modifies. It will always just stay as koko.
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