Word
Kyllästyitkö sinä odottamaan?
Meaning
Did you get fed up with waiting?
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Kyllästyitkö sinä odottamaan?
How does the -tyä suffix change the meaning of the verb here?
The verb kyllästyä (to get bored or fed up) comes from the transitive verb kyllästää (to saturate). Adding the -tyä suffix turns it into an automative verb, meaning the action happens to the subject itself. So instead of saturating something else, you become saturated, or fed up!
Why is the word for waiting in the form odottamaan instead of just odottaa?
The verb kyllästyä requires the third infinitive (the -ma/-mä form) in the illative case (ending in -an/-än). This is a strict rule, or rection, for this verb. So odottaa becomes odottamaan (literally into waiting).
How exactly is the word kyllästyitkö built?
It starts with the verb stem kyllästy-. To form the past tense, we add the past tense marker -i-, giving kyllästyi-. Then we add the personal ending -t for you (kyllästyit) and finally the question clitic -kö (kyllästyitkö).
Do we have to include the pronoun sinä in this sentence?
No, it is completely optional. Because the verb ending -t already tells us who the subject is, Kyllästyitkö odottamaan? is a perfectly natural and common way to ask this. Including sinä just adds a slight emphasis.