Breakdown of Pelastettuaan minut sankari ei saanut kokemuspisteitä.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
minut
me
saada
to get
pelastaa
to save, to rescue
sankari
the hero
kokemuspiste
experience point
Questions & Answers about Pelastettuaan minut sankari ei saanut kokemuspisteitä.
How is pelastettuaan formed, and why does an active action use a passive participle?
This is the past temporal construction, which translates to "after doing". You build it by taking the passive past participle (pelastettu), adding the partitive ending (-a), and finally attaching a possessive suffix (-an). Even though the base building block is a passive participle, the possessive suffix gives the construction an active meaning: "after he rescued".
How do we know who did the rescuing just by looking at pelastettuaan?
The possessive suffix -an tells us that the action was performed by the subject of the main clause, which is sankari. If the rescuer had been someone else, you would state the doer in the genitive case and drop the possessive suffix entirely. For example: Poliisin pelastettua minut... (After the police rescued me...).
Why is the object of the rescue minut instead of the partitive minua?
The temporal construction takes an object just like a normal verb clause. Because the rescue was a successfully completed action, it requires a total object (accusative case). For personal pronouns like minä, this specific accusative form ends in -t (minut).
Why is the second object, kokemuspisteitä, in the partitive case?
It is the object of the main clause, which is negative (ei saanut). In Finnish, negative actions almost always force the object into the partitive case. Here, it is in the partitive plural because "experience points" is a plural concept.
Can I rephrase this sentence without using the past temporal construction?
Yes, you can use a normal subordinate clause starting with sen jälkeen kun (after). The sentence would become: Sen jälkeen kun sankari oli pelastanut minut, hän ei saanut kokemuspisteitä. The temporal construction is just a shorter, slightly more advanced alternative.
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