Breakdown of En vihaa meditoimista, vaan inhoan lenkkeilemistä.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
vaan
but rather (after a negative)
vihata
to hate
inhota
to loathe
lenkkeillä
to jog
meditoida
to meditate
Questions & Answers about En vihaa meditoimista, vaan inhoan lenkkeilemistä.
Why are we using the -mista and -mistä forms here instead of the basic dictionary verbs meditoida and lenkkeillä?
The verbs vihata (to hate) and inhota (to loathe) are emotion verbs, which require their objects to be in the partitive case. To make a verb act as an object, we must first turn it into a noun using the 4th infinitive (-minen) and then apply the partitive ending, resulting in -mista or -mistä.
Does the negative En vihaa cause the partitive meditoimista, or is it just the verb type?
It is strictly the verb type. While negative sentences do generally trigger the partitive case for objects, emotion verbs like vihata and inhota inherently demand the partitive regardless of whether they are negative or positive. You can see this in action with the positive statement inhoan lenkkeilemistä.
Why does this sentence use vaan instead of mutta for the word but?
The conjunction vaan is used after a negative statement when you are presenting a direct alternative or correction. Because the first clause is negative (En vihaa), vaan is used to express not this, but rather that. If the first clause were a positive statement, you would use mutta.
How exactly do we build the form lenkkeilemistä from the basic verb lenkkeillä?
Lenkkeillä is a type 3 verb. To find the stem for the -minen noun, we take the strong present tense stem, which is lenkkeile-. Then we attach the partitive 4th infinitive ending. Because the word contains front vowels, vowel harmony dictates we use the front-vowel ending -mistä, giving us lenkkeilemistä.
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