Word
Kaikki voivat matkustaa toimintakyvystä riippumatta.
Meaning
Everyone can travel regardless of functional ability.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Kaikki voivat matkustaa toimintakyvystä riippumatta.
matkustaa
to travel
voida
can, to be able to
kaikki
all, everything, everyone
riippumatta
regardless of
Questions & Answers about Kaikki voivat matkustaa toimintakyvystä riippumatta.
Why does the word toimintakyky take the -stä ending here?
The postposition riippumatta (regardless of) requires the word it modifies to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). This is because it comes from the verb riippua, meaning to depend, which also requires the elative case when saying you depend on something.
Where does the word riippumatta come from, and why does it look like a verb?
It actually is a verb form! It is the abessive form (meaning 'without') of the third infinitive of the verb riippua (to depend). So toimintakyvystä riippumatta translates quite literally to 'without depending on functional ability'.
What happens to the stem of kyky when forming toimintakyvystä?
The word toimintakyky (functional ability) ends with kyky. Adding the closed elative ending -stä triggers consonant gradation. For a single 'k' between two 'y' vowels, the 'k' changes to a 'v', resulting in the weak stem kyvy- before the ending.
In English, 'everyone' is singular. Why is the verb voivat in the plural here?
Unlike in English, the Finnish pronoun kaikki (all/everyone) takes a plural verb when it refers to a group of people. Since kaikki acts as a plural subject here, the verb voida must be conjugated in the third-person plural as voivat.