Breakdown of Meidän on hyvä miettiä sopeutumista kulttuurišokin jälkeen.
olla
to be
me
we
hyvä
good
miettiä
to think about
jälkeen
after
kulttuurišokki
the culture shock
sopeutuminen
the adaptation
Questions & Answers about Meidän on hyvä miettiä sopeutumista kulttuurišokin jälkeen.
Why do we use the genitive Meidän here instead of the nominative Me?
This sentence uses an evaluative structure. In Finnish, when you express that it is good, bad, easy, or hard for someone to do something, the person experiencing it is put in the genitive case. So, it is good for us to think becomes Meidän on hyvä miettiä.
Why doesn't the verb olla agree with Meidän and become olemme?
In these genitive experiencer structures, the verb is always in the third-person singular (on), regardless of who the experiencer is. The grammatical subject of the sentence is actually the infinitive action itself (miettiä).
Why is sopeutumista in the partitive case?
It is the object of the verb miettiä (to think about, to ponder), which is a partitive verb. You always ponder something in the partitive, so the noun sopeutuminen (adaptation) becomes sopeutumista.
Why does kulttuurišokki take the genitive ending -n here?
It is governed by the word jälkeen (after). Jälkeen is a postposition, and like most Finnish postpositions, it requires the word coming right before it to be in the genitive case, making it kulttuurišokin.
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