Questions & Answers about Sallit sovelluksen käyttää kameraa.
Why is sovelluksen in the genitive case here?
Verbs of permission like sallia (to allow) and antaa (to let) require the subject of the permitted action to be in the genitive case. Here, the app is the one doing the using, so it takes the genitive form sovelluksen right before the first infinitive käyttää.
How do we know sallit is in the past tense here?
You actually have to rely on context. For verbs ending in -ia like sallia, the second-person singular is sallit in both the present ('You allow') and the past tense ('You allowed'). The translation assumes past tense based on typical usage, like reviewing settings you just changed.
Why is kameraa in the partitive case?
It acts as the object of the infinitive käyttää (to use), not the main verb sallia. The verb käyttää takes a partitive object because using a device is generally treated as an ongoing or unbounded process.
Could I use the verb antaa instead of sallia here?
Yes, you could say Annoit sovelluksen käyttää kameraa. Both govern the exact same genitive plus first infinitive structure. However, sallia is a bit more formal and is the standard technical term used in Finnish software interfaces for granting permissions.