Breakdown of Maailmanherruus on meidän, jos emme epäröi nyt.
olla
to be
me
we
nyt
now
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
jos
if
maailmanherruus
world domination
epäröidä
to hesitate
Questions & Answers about Maailmanherruus on meidän, jos emme epäröi nyt.
Since this lesson teaches the first-person plural negative imperative, how would we change this sentence to say 'Let's not hesitate now'?
You would use älkäämme plus the verb stem and the -ko/-kö suffix. The stem of epäröidä is epäröi-, so it becomes Älkäämme epäröikö nyt. The original sentence uses the standard negative indicative (emme epäröi) because it states a condition with jos (if we don't hesitate), rather than making a command or suggestion.
How is the word maailmanherruus built?
It is a compound of maailman (the genitive of maailma, meaning 'world's') and herruus (domination/mastery). Herruus is formed by taking the noun herra (lord/master) and adding the suffix -uus, which creates abstract nouns similar to '-dom' or '-ship' in English.
Can the genitive pronoun meidän stand alone to mean 'ours'?
What type of verb is epäröidä, and how do we find its stem?
Epäröidä (to hesitate) is a Type 2 verb. You find the stem by dropping the infinitive ending -dä, which leaves epäröi-. This stem is used for both the standard negative (emme epäröi) and the imperative forms you are learning in this module (epäröikö).
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