Breakdown of Jokaista ihmistä täytyy kohdella hyvin, jotta kukaan ei tule sivuutetuksi.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
hyvin
well
ihminen
human
täytyä
to have to
kukaan
anyone, nobody (with negation)
tulla
to become
jotta
so that / in order to
jokainen
every / each (declinable)
sivuuttaa
to ignore
kohdella
to treat
Questions & Answers about Jokaista ihmistä täytyy kohdella hyvin, jotta kukaan ei tule sivuutetuksi.
What exactly is the structure tule sivuutetuksi and how is it formed?
This is the translative participle construction of passive experience, which this lesson focuses on. It pairs the verb tulla (here as the negative ei tule) with the passive past participle of the main verb in the translative case (-ksi). The base verb is sivuuttaa (to bypass or to ignore), its passive past participle is sivuutettu, and adding the translative ending makes it sivuutetuksi. Together, it means "gets ignored" or "ends up being ignored".
How does kukaan ei tule sivuutetuksi differ in meaning and grammar from the regular passive ketään ei sivuuteta?
While both translate similarly, using tulla focuses heavily on the personal experience or the end result for the subject ("gets ignored"), rather than just the action of an unnamed group. Grammatically, tulla acts as a normal active verb here, so kukaan is its nominative subject. If you used the regular negative passive (ei sivuuteta), the person being ignored would be the object, which would force the pronoun into the partitive case (ketään).
Why is jokaista ihmistä in the partitive case here?
The verb kohdella (to treat) inherently requires a partitive object. You might remember that necessity verbs like täytyy often take a nominative object for complete actions, but the inherent partitive nature of a verb like kohdella is a stronger rule and always overrides the special object rules of necessity sentences.
Why isn't there a genitive subject before täytyy?
Because this is a universal statement. When expressing a general rule like "one must treat..." or "people generally must treat...", Finnish leaves the genitive subject out entirely. The sentence starts directly with the object jokaista ihmistä followed by the generic täytyy.
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