Breakdown of Inventaario on valmis, paitsi että tämä saldo ei täsmää.
tämä
this
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
valmis
ready
että
that (conjunction)
paitsi
except (for), besides
inventaario
stocktaking
saldo
balance
täsmätä
to match
Questions & Answers about Inventaario on valmis, paitsi että tämä saldo ei täsmää.
How does paitsi että function here compared to just using paitsi?
Paitsi että acts as a subordinate conjunction meaning "except that", which allows you to introduce a full new clause (tämä saldo ei täsmää). If you used just paitsi ("except"), it would act as a preposition and require a noun or pronoun in the partitive case, rather than a whole clause with its own verb.
What kind of "matching" does täsmätä refer to here? Could I use it for matching clothes?
Täsmätä specifically means to match in the sense of numbers, facts, or accounts tallying up correctly. It is heavily used in accounting and logic. For matching clothes or colors, you would instead use a phrase like sopia yhteen.
Why is there a comma before paitsi että?
Finnish punctuation rules strictly require a comma between a main clause (Inventaario on valmis) and a subordinate clause. Here, paitsi että functions together as a compound conjunction, so the comma is placed right before paitsi to separate the two clauses.
Why doesn't täsmää look like a typical negative verb form after ei?
Täsmätä is a type 4 verb. To form the present negative, you use the connegative stem, which is found by removing the final -t from the infinitive. This makes the negative stem täsmää. It happens to look exactly like the third-person singular affirmative (se täsmää), which is a common quirk for verb types 4, 5, and 6.
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