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Questions & Answers about Minä inhoan imuroimista.
Why is the word for vacuuming in the -mista form here?
Emotion verbs like inhota (to loathe) require their object to be in the partitive case. When you loathe an action, you must first turn the verb into a noun using the fourth infinitive (-minen). Then, you put that noun into the partitive case. So, the act of vacuuming becomes imuroiminen, which then becomes imuroimista.
In English we can say 'I loathe to vacuum.' Can I just use the basic verb and say Minä inhoan imuroida?
No, that is grammatically incorrect in Finnish. While a few verbs like tykätä (to like) can take a basic first infinitive in spoken language, strong emotion verbs like inhota, vihata (to hate), and rakastaa (to love) strictly require the -mista / -mistä form when referring to activities.
How do you build the word imuroimista from the base verb imuroida?
Imuroida is a type 2 verb. To make the -minen noun, you drop the infinitive ending -da to get the stem imuroi-. Add -minen to get the noun imuroiminen. To put a -nen noun into the partitive case, you replace the final -nen with -sta, giving you imuroimista.
What verb type is inhota, and how do we get from it?