Breakdown of Meidän poimimamme mustikat ovat herkullisia.
olla
to be
herkullinen
delicious
poimia
to pick
mustikka
blueberry
Questions & Answers about Meidän poimimamme mustikat ovat herkullisia.
How exactly is the word poimimamme formed?
It is the agent participle of the verb poimia (to pick). First, we take the strong stem poimi- and add the agent participle ending -ma. Finally, because the pickers are "we" (meidän), we must attach the matching first-person plural possessive suffix -mme to the end.
Could we drop the word meidän from this sentence?
Yes, absolutely! With first and second-person pronouns (like I, you, and we), the genitive pronoun can be omitted because the possessive suffix on the participle already reveals who did the action. You could simply say Poimimamme mustikat ovat herkullisia.
Why does the participle poimimamme come before mustikat instead of after it like in English?
In Finnish, participles act just like normal adjectives. Just as you would place an adjective before a noun, you place the agent participle right before the noun it modifies. You are essentially saying "The by-us-picked blueberries".
Why is herkullisia in the partitive plural instead of the nominative plural herkulliset?
When you have a plural subject like mustikat and use the verb olla (to be) to describe what they are like, the describing adjective must be in the partitive plural. If you used the nominative plural herkulliset, it would sound like you are saying "are the delicious ones" rather than just "are delicious".
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