Breakdown of Minä inhoan sienestämistä sateessa.
minä
I
sade
rain
inhota
to loathe
sienestää
to pick mushrooms
Questions & Answers about Minä inhoan sienestämistä sateessa.
Why do we use sienestämistä instead of just the basic verb sienestää?
The verb inhota (to hate) is an emotion verb that requires its object to be in the partitive case. To use an action as the object, we first turn the verb sienestää (to pick mushrooms) into a noun using the 4th infinitive -minen (sienestäminen). Then, because inhoan demands the partitive, it becomes sienestämistä.
Could I just say Minä inhoan sienestää like I would in English?
No, that is a common mistake for English speakers. While English allows "I hate to pick mushrooms", Finnish emotion verbs like inhota, rakastaa (to love), and vihata (to hate) strictly require the 4th infinitive partitive (-mista/-mistä) when the object is an activity.
Is the verb sienestää related to the word for mushroom?
Yes! In Finnish, you can often create an activity verb directly from a noun. The noun sieni (mushroom) becomes the verb sienestää (to pick mushrooms, to go mushrooming). Another common example is marja (berry) becoming marjastaa (to pick berries).
Why does sade (rain) become sateessa? Where did the "t" come from?
The base word is sade. Finnish nouns ending in -de undergo consonant gradation where the d changes to t when an ending is added. The stem becomes satee-, and adding the inessive ending -ssa (in) gives us sateessa.
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