Breakdown of Vanhaa moottoritietä ei korjattane enää.
vanha
old
ei
no / not (negative verb)
enää
anymore
korjata
to fix
moottoritie
highway
Questions & Answers about Vanhaa moottoritietä ei korjattane enää.
How exactly is the negative passive potential ei korjattane formed from the verb korjata?
korjata is a type 4 verb. You find the passive stem by looking at the regular passive korjataan and replacing the -aan with the potential marker -tane- to get the affirmative korjattaneen. For the negative, you just use ei and drop the final personal ending -en, leaving ei korjattane.
Passive sentences usually take a nominative object. Why is vanhaa moottoritietä in the partitive case here?
The rule that passive objects look like the nominative only applies to affirmative sentences. Because this sentence is negative (ei korjattane), the object must be in the partitive case. The negative object rule always overrides the normal passive object rule.
Is ei korjattane common in everyday speech, or would Finns express this differently?
The potential mood is quite rare in everyday spoken Finnish and usually sounds formal or literary. In casual speech, a Finn would be much more likely to use the standard negative passive with an adverb, such as sitä ei ehkä korjata (maybe it won't be repaired).
Could you use taas or lisää instead of enää to mean 'anymore' in this sentence?
No, enää is the specific word used for 'anymore' or 'any longer' in negative sentences to show that a state or action has stopped. lisää means 'more' in terms of an additional amount, and taas means 'again'.
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