Word
Netissä kerätyt henkilötiedot ovat arvokkaita.
Meaning
Personal data collected on the internet is valuable.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Netissä kerätyt henkilötiedot ovat arvokkaita.
olla
to be
kerätä
to collect
arvokas
valuable
netti
internet
Questions & Answers about Netissä kerätyt henkilötiedot ovat arvokkaita.
Why does kerätyt have a -t at the end?
kerätyt is the passive past participle of kerätä (to collect). Here it acts as an adjective describing henkilötiedot (personal data). Because the noun is in the plural nominative, the participle must agree and take the plural -t ending.
Why is netissä placed before kerätyt?
In Finnish, when a participle like kerätyt (collected) is used as an adjective before a noun, any words linked to that action—such as where it happened (netissä)—must come right before the participle. It literally creates the structure 'on-the-internet collected personal data'.
English uses 'data' as an uncountable singular, so why is henkilötiedot plural?
The base word tieto means 'a piece of information'. When referring to data, records, or a collection of facts, Finnish uses the plural form tiedot. Therefore, henkilötiedot (personal details or data) is naturally treated as a plural noun.
Why is the adjective arvokkaita in the partitive plural rather than the nominative plural?
When a plural subject like henkilötiedot is described by an adjective using the verb olla (to be), that adjective is usually in the partitive plural. Using the nominative plural (arvokkaat) would imply you mean 'the valuable ones' out of a specific, restricted group, rather than making a general statement about their nature.