Breakdown of Tämä teoria perustuu siihen, että farao lienee paennut saarelle.
tämä
this
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
saari
island
että
that (conjunction)
paeta
to flee
perustua
to be based on
farao
the pharaoh
teoria
the theory
Questions & Answers about Tämä teoria perustuu siihen, että farao lienee paennut saarelle.
How does lienee paennut express 'probably escaped'?
Lienee paennut is the potential perfect tense of paeta (to escape). It is formed using lienee, which is the potential mood of olla (to be) in the 3rd person singular, plus the active past participle paennut. It translates to 'has probably escaped' or 'may have escaped'.
Why do we need the word siihen before että?
The verb perustua (to be based on) requires the illative case. In Finnish, you cannot attach an että (that) clause directly to a verb that demands a specific case. Instead, you put the pronoun se (it) into the required case—becoming siihen—and then follow it with the että clause.
Why is saarelle (to the island) in the allative case rather than the illative case saareen?
With islands (saari), Finnish typically uses the outer local cases (the endings -lle, -lla, -lta) because you are moving 'onto' or being 'on' the landmass, rather than going inside it. So, fleeing to an island requires the allative saarelle.
What is the infinitive form of paennut, and how is this participle formed?
The infinitive is paeta (to escape), which is a Type 6 verb. To form the active past participle for a Type 6 verb, you remove the -ta or -tä ending and add -nnut or -nnyt. Therefore, paeta becomes paennut.
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