Word
Suostutko sinä todella tuollaiseen petokseen?
Meaning
Do you really consent to that kind of betrayal?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Suostutko sinä todella tuollaiseen petokseen?
sinä
you
suostua
to agree, to consent
todella
really (very, intensifier)
tuollainen
that kind of
Questions & Answers about Suostutko sinä todella tuollaiseen petokseen?
Why are tuollaiseen petokseen in the illative case?
This is the core of the current lesson! The verb suostua (to consent, to agree to) always requires the illative case for the thing being agreed to. Because of this rule, both the noun petos (betrayal) and its modifier tuollainen (that kind of) take the illative ending.
How is the illative form petokseen formed from the basic word petos?
Nouns ending in -os or -ös (which are often derived from verbs, like pettää meaning "to betray") change their ending to -okse- or -ökse- to form their stem. For the illative case, you lengthen the final stem vowel and add -n, resulting in petos -> petokse- -> petokseen.
Tuollainen becomes tuollaiseen. How does that stem change work again?
Since suostutko already means "do you consent," why is the pronoun sinä included here?