Tämä asu on nähtävästi saanut paljon huomiota.
This outfit has evidently received a lot of attention.
Breakdown of Tämä asu on nähtävästi saanut paljon huomiota.
tämä
this
olla
to be
paljon
a lot
saada
to get
huomio
attention
asu
outfit
nähtävästi
evidently
Questions & Answers about Tämä asu on nähtävästi saanut paljon huomiota.
Why is nähtävästi placed between on and saanut?
Sentence-modifying adverbs like nähtävästi usually sit right after the conjugated verb. In a compound tense like the perfect tense here, this means it naturally splits the auxiliary verb (on) and the main verb's participle (saanut).
How is the word nähtävästi formed? It looks like the verb nähdä.
You are right! It is formed from the passive present participle nähtävä (meaning "to be seen" or "visible"), derived from nähdä (to see). Adding the adverb ending -sti makes it literally mean "visibly", which we translate as "evidently" or "apparently".
Could I put nähtävästi at the very beginning of the sentence instead?
Yes, you can say Nähtävästi tämä asu on saanut paljon huomiota. Placing it at the beginning puts slightly more emphasis on your own deduction ("Evidently, this outfit..."), but the core meaning remains exactly the same.
Why is huomiota in the partitive case? Is it because the outfit received an undefined amount of it?
While abstract nouns like attention often take the partitive as direct objects, the strict grammatical trigger here is the quantifier paljon (a lot). In Finnish, words expressing amount always force the noun they quantify into the partitive case.
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