Word
Herätetyt eivät tarvitse taikuutta.
Meaning
The awakened do not need magic.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Herätetyt eivät tarvitse taikuutta.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
tarvita
to need
herättää
to awaken
taikuus
magic (practice, sorcery)
Questions & Answers about Herätetyt eivät tarvitse taikuutta.
How is herätetyt functioning as a noun in this sentence?
It is a substantivized participle. It comes from the passive past participle of herättää (to wake someone up). By taking the participle herätetty (awakened) and putting it in the plural nominative form herätetyt, it turns directly into a noun meaning "the awakened ones" or "those who have been awakened."
What is the difference between herätetyt and heränneet?
Herätetyt is the passive past participle of the transitive verb herättää (to wake someone else up). It implies someone or something else woke these people. If you used heränneet, you would be using the active past participle of the intransitive verb herätä (to wake up on your own), which would simply mean "those who woke up."
Why is the object taikuutta in the partitive case?
The absolute rule here is the negative verb (eivät tarvitse). In Finnish, the object of a negative sentence must always be in the partitive case. Even in a positive sentence, abstract and uncountable concepts like taikuus (magic) often naturally take the partitive when used as an object.
How is the word taikuutta formed from its base dictionary form?