Breakdown of Viivakoodi toimii, paitsi että järjestelmän saldo ei täsmää.
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
että
that (conjunction)
toimia
to function, to work / to act
paitsi
except (for), besides
järjestelmä
system
saldo
balance
täsmätä
to match
viivakoodi
barcode
Questions & Answers about Viivakoodi toimii, paitsi että järjestelmän saldo ei täsmää.
Why do we use paitsi että instead of just paitsi here?
Paitsi että translates to "except that" and is used to connect two full clauses. If you just used paitsi, it would act as a preposition requiring a noun in the partitive case, as in the phrase kaikki paitsi minua. Because the second half of this sentence has its own subject and verb (saldo ei täsmää), you must use the subordinate connector paitsi että.
What kind of matching does the verb täsmätä refer to?
Täsmätä specifically means to tally, add up, or balance, which makes it the perfect verb for numbers, accounts, or facts. You wouldn't use it for matching clothes, for instance. Here, the negative form ei täsmää means the system's numbers do not add up.
Why is there a comma before paitsi että?
Finnish punctuation rules require a comma between a main clause and a subordinate clause. Since että introduces a subordinate clause, the comma is mandatory. It is placed before paitsi because the phrase paitsi että functions as a single connector linking the two clauses.
How is the compound word viivakoodi constructed?
It combines viiva (line, dash, or stroke) and koodi (code). In Finnish compound words, the first word often stays in the nominative case when it simply describes what the second word is made of, literally giving us a "line code".
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