Breakdown of Karkotetut perustivat uuden heimon vuoristoon.
uusi
new
perustaa
to found
vuoristo
the mountain range
karkottaa
to banish
heimo
tribe
Questions & Answers about Karkotetut perustivat uuden heimon vuoristoon.
How is karkotetut functioning as a noun in this sentence?
Karkotetut is the plural passive past participle (TU/TTU participle) of the verb karkottaa (to banish or exile). Instead of describing a noun, it stands alone as a substantivized participle meaning the banished ones or the exiles. Here, it is in the nominative plural because it acts as the subject of the sentence.
Why do we use the illative case (vuoristoon) when the English translation says in the mountains?
In Finnish, the verb perustaa (to found or establish) requires a location in an entering case, usually the illative. The logic is that you establish something into a place rather than statically in it.
Could I just use the plural of vuori (vuoriin) instead of vuoristoon?
You could use vuoriin, but vuoristoon is much more natural here. The suffix -sto is used to create collective nouns, so vuoristo specifically means a mountain range or mountainous region. This fits the context of founding a settlement better than referring to individual mountains.
Why is the object uuden heimon in the genitive-looking accusative rather than the partitive?
The action of founding the tribe is seen as a complete, finished process, and the object is a whole, singular, countable unit. Because of this, it takes the total object case, which ends in -n for singular nouns.
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