Breakdown of Jos haluat, voit vuokrata avaran asunnon uusine kalusteineen.
uusi
new
haluta
to want
voida
can, to be able to
jos
if
vuokrata
to rent
asunto
apartment
kaluste
piece of furniture
avara
spacious (open, expansive)
Questions & Answers about Jos haluat, voit vuokrata avaran asunnon uusine kalusteineen.
Why does the adjective uusi become uusine without a possessive suffix, while kalusteineen has one?
This is the core rule of comitative agreement. While adjectives modifying a noun in the comitative case must also take the comitative ending -ne, they never take a possessive suffix. Only the head noun (kaluste) gets the possessive suffix (-en).
How is the word kalusteineen built from the base word kaluste?
The comitative case is always built on the plural stem. For kaluste (piece of furniture), the plural stem is kalustei-. We then add the comitative marker -ne, followed by the 3rd person possessive suffix -en.
Why use the 3rd person possessive suffix -en on kalusteineen when the subject of the sentence is "you"?
The suffix -en translates to "its" in this context. It refers back to the apartment (asunto), because the furniture belongs to the apartment, not to the person renting it.
Why do avaran and asunnon end in -n here?
They form the total object of the verb vuokrata (to rent). Because renting the apartment is a complete action affecting the whole object, the noun and its modifying adjective take the accusative case, which for singular nouns looks identical to the genitive case ending -n.
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