Breakdown of Moottoritien vaikutus luontoon on tuntematon.
olla
to be
luonto
nature
tuntematon
unknown
moottoritie
highway
vaikutus
impact
Questions & Answers about Moottoritien vaikutus luontoon on tuntematon.
This lesson covers the negative potential passive. How would we change this sentence to express 'The highway's impact on nature will probably not be known'?
You would replace on tuntematon with the negative potential passive: ei tunnettane. The sentence becomes Moottoritien vaikutusta luontoon ei tunnettane. Notice that because this is now a negative passive sentence, the noun vaikutus changes to the partitive case, vaikutusta.
Why does 'impact on nature' use the illative case (luontoon) rather than a case like adessive for 'on'?
In Finnish, both the noun vaikutus (impact/effect) and its related verb vaikuttaa (to affect/influence) require the target to be in the illative case. You can think of the influence as a force flowing into the target, rather than just resting on top of it.
How exactly is the word tuntematon constructed?
It is formed by adding the negative participle suffix -maton to the strong vowel stem of the verb tuntea (to know/feel), which is tunte-. This suffix is used to create adjectives meaning 'un-' or 'without doing' something.
Since tuntea can mean 'to feel', could tuntematon also mean 'unfelt' here?
Yes, technically. The verb tuntea means both 'to know' (being familiar with something) and 'to feel' (a physical sensation or emotion). While 'unknown' is the most natural translation for scientific or environmental contexts, an 'unfelt' impact is grammatically valid.
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