Word
Tasa-arvo tarkoittaa sitä, että kuuro pystyy osallistumaan kokoukseen.
Meaning
Equality means that a deaf person is able to participate in the meeting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tasa-arvo tarkoittaa sitä, että kuuro pystyy osallistumaan kokoukseen.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
kokous
meeting (formal)
että
that (conjunction)
osallistua
to participate
Questions & Answers about Tasa-arvo tarkoittaa sitä, että kuuro pystyy osallistumaan kokoukseen.
Why is osallistumaan in the -maan form instead of the basic infinitive?
The verb pystyä (to be able to) requires the verb that follows it to be in the 3rd infinitive illative form, which ends in -maan or -mään. Here, it attaches to osallistua (to participate).
Why do we have the word sitä before että?
While in English we simply say 'means that', Finnish verbs like tarkoittaa often need a dummy pronoun to act as the object for the following clause. Because tarkoittaa requires a partitive object, we use sitä (the partitive of se) right before the että clause.
Why is kokoukseen in the illative (into) case when the English translation says participating 'in' a meeting?
The verb osallistua (to participate) always governs the illative case. In Finnish, you don't participate 'in' an event, you participate 'into' it.
What is the base form of kokoukseen?
The base form is kokous (meeting). For Finnish words ending in -us, the stem changes to -ukse- before adding case endings. To form the illative, you add -en, resulting in kokoukseen.
How is the word tasa-arvo formed?