Breakdown of Ihmiset kyllästyvät huonoon säähän.
huono
bad
ihminen
human
sää
the weather
kyllästyä
to get fed up, to get bored
Questions & Answers about Ihmiset kyllästyvät huonoon säähän.
How does the verb kyllästyvät relate to the -tua/-tyä automative verb lesson?
Kyllästyä (to get fed up or bored) is an automative verb ending in -tyä. It is related to the transitive verb kyllästää (to saturate or fill). The -tyä suffix means the action happens to the subject automatically—people become "saturated" or fed up on their own, rather than someone else actively doing it to them.
Why are the words huono and sää in the illative case (huonoon säähän)?
The verb kyllästyä is a verb that demands a specific case (a rection). It always requires the illative case. While in English you get fed up with something, in Finnish you get fed up into it. Therefore, both the adjective huono and the noun sää take their illative endings.
Why is the illative ending for sää so different from huono?
Sää is a word ending in a long vowel. To form the illative case for words ending in a long vowel, you must add -h + the last vowel + -n. For sää, this makes säähän. Because huono ends in a short vowel, it follows the simpler rule of doubling the last vowel and adding -n, becoming huonoon.
Since Finnish doesn't have articles, how do we know to translate this as "People" and not "The people"?
When a plural subject like ihmiset is placed at the beginning of a sentence in the basic nominative case, it usually expresses a general statement. The context here tells us it refers to people in general getting fed up with bad weather, rather than a specific group of people.