Breakdown of Minä en muista tuota omituisehkoa ja etäisehköä sukulaista.
tuo
that
minä
I
ja
and
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
muistaa
to remember
sukulainen
relative
etäinen
distant (remote, aloof)
omituinen
peculiar (strange, weird)
Questions & Answers about Minä en muista tuota omituisehkoa ja etäisehköä sukulaista.
How is the -hko / -hkö suffix attached to words ending in -nen like omituinen and etäinen?
When adding this suffix to an adjective ending in -nen, you must attach it to the word's base stem. For words ending in -nen, the stem changes to end in -se-. Therefore, omituinen becomes omituise- + hko (omituisehko), and etäinen becomes etäise- + hkö (etäisehkö).
Why does one adjective get -hko (omituisehkoa) and the other -hkö (etäisehköä)?
This is a perfect example of vowel harmony in action. omituinen contains the back vowels o and u, so it requires the back-vowel suffix -hko. etäinen contains the front vowel ä alongside the neutral vowels e and i, so it dictates the front-vowel suffix -hkö.
Do adjectives with the -hko / -hkö suffix follow a special pattern when taking case endings?
Not at all! Once the -hko / -hkö suffix is added, the new word behaves like any ordinary adjective ending in -o or -ö. To form the partitive case in this sentence, you simply add -a or -ä directly to the end, resulting in omituisehkoa and etäisehköä.
Why is the entire object phrase (tuota omituisehkoa ja etäisehköä sukulaista) in the partitive case?
The sentence is negative (en muista, I do not remember). In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence is strictly always in the partitive case. All the descriptive words must agree in case with the main noun sukulainen (relative), which becomes sukulaista in the partitive.
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