Breakdown of Juotuaan taikajuoman sankarit eivät ole väsyneitä.
olla
to be
väsynyt
tired
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
juoda
to drink
sankari
the hero
taikajuoma
potion
Questions & Answers about Juotuaan taikajuoman sankarit eivät ole väsyneitä.
How exactly is the word juotuaan built in this sentence?
The word juotuaan is a past temporal construction meaning 'after drinking' or 'after they drank'. It is built from the verb juoda (to drink). You take the passive past participle juotu, add the partitive ending -a to make juotua, and finally attach the third-person possessive suffix -an to match the subject sankarit (the heroes).
Why does juotuaan use a passive stem if the heroes are actively doing the drinking?
This is the main trick of the past temporal construction! Even though the heroes actively drank the potion, this specific grammar structure always uses the passive past participle stem (like juotu-, syöty-, or sanottu-) to express 'after doing something'. You rely on the possessive suffix at the end (here, -an) to show who actually did the action.
Why is the object taikajuoman in the genitive case here?
The object in a temporal construction still follows normal object rules. Because drinking the potion is a completed action (they drank the whole thing), it requires a total object. For a singular noun like taikajuoma, the total object takes the genitive ending -n, making it taikajuoman.
Why is väsyneitä in the partitive case?
The word väsyneitä is the partitive plural of väsynyt (tired). Because the subject of the main sentence (sankarit) is a plural noun, the adjective describing them after the verb to be (ole) must be in the partitive plural.
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