Word
Viedään tää nuhjuinen lumppu kierrätyskeskukseen!
Meaning
Let's take this shabby rag to the recycling center!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Viedään tää nuhjuinen lumppu kierrätyskeskukseen!
tämä
this
viedä
to take (away, somewhere) / to take (time), require
nuhjuinen
shabby
lumppu
the rag
Questions & Answers about Viedään tää nuhjuinen lumppu kierrätyskeskukseen!
Why is the object tää nuhjuinen lumppu in the nominative form instead of taking the -n ending?
Because the verb viedään is in the passive voice. When a verb is passive, even when it is used to mean let's, the total object of the sentence drops the -n ending and takes the basic nominative form.
Viedään is technically a passive verb. Why is it translated as Let's take?
In modern Finnish, the passive present form is the standard way to express the first-person plural imperative, which means let's do something. While a formal version exists (viekäämme), viedään is what people actually use in everyday speech and writing.
Why does keskus turn into keskukseen in the illative case?
Nouns ending in -us often have a stem that changes to -kse- before adding case endings. To form the illative case meaning into or to, you add -en to the -kse- stem, resulting in kierrätyskeskukseen.
If this were a regular active sentence like I will take this shabby rag, how would tää nuhjuinen lumppu change?
If the sentence were active, for example Vien..., the total object would require the standard genitive-accusative -n ending. The spoken word tää would become tän, resulting in the phrase tän nuhjuisen lumpun.