Breakdown of Tämä katselmus vaatii tieteellistä asiantuntemusta.
tämä
this
vaatia
to claim (demand)
tieteellinen
scientific
asiantuntemus
expertise
katselmus
inspection
Questions & Answers about Tämä katselmus vaatii tieteellistä asiantuntemusta.
Both katselmus and katselu come from the verb katsella (to watch or view). What is the difference in meaning?
The suffix -mus often creates a noun representing the result of an action, or a specific, formal event. While katselu refers to the continuous action or activity of watching, katselmus means a formal "inspection," "review," or "survey" (a concrete event resulting from looking at something).
How does the -mus suffix work in the word asiantuntemusta?
The base is the compound word asiantuntemus (expertise), which combines asian (of the matter) and tuntemus (knowledge or feeling). Tuntemus is formed from the verb tuntea (to know or feel) plus the -mus suffix, turning the verb into an abstract noun. Because this noun ends in -us, its partitive ending is -ta, giving us asiantuntemusta.
Why are tieteellistä and asiantuntemusta in the partitive case?
The verb vaatia (to demand or require) takes a partitive object when referring to abstract, uncountable concepts like expertise. Because the noun asiantuntemus is partitive here, its modifying adjective tieteellinen (scientific) must also take the matching partitive form tieteellistä.
How do we get the form tieteellistä from the base word tiede (science)?
First, the common adjective suffix -llinen is added to the strong stem of tiede (tietee-) to create tieteellinen (scientific). For words ending in -nen, the partitive case is always formed by replacing -nen with -stä, which gives us tieteellistä.
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