Breakdown of Oletko kiinnostunut sovelluksessa näytetyistä mainoksista?
näyttää
to show
olla kiinnostunut
to be interested in
sovellus
app
mainos
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Questions & Answers about Oletko kiinnostunut sovelluksessa näytetyistä mainoksista?
Why are both näytetyistä and mainoksista in the elative case?
The word kiinnostunut (interested) dictates the case here; it requires the thing you are interested in to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). Because the participle näytetyistä acts as an adjective describing mainoksista (advertisements), they must both be in the elative plural form.
What verb form is näytetyistä and why is it used?
It is the passive past participle (often called the TU-participle) of the verb näyttää (to show), meaning "shown" or "that are shown". It is passive because the advertisements are being shown by an unnamed agent (the app). It acts as an adjective here, taking the plural elative ending -istä to agree with the noun it modifies.
Why does the location sovelluksessa come before the participle näytetyistä?
In Finnish, when a participle acts as an adjective modifying a noun, any words that tie to that participle (like the location where they are shown) must be placed directly in front of it. Instead of the English "advertisements shown in the app," Finnish creates a nested structure that literally translates to "in the app shown advertisements" (sovelluksessa näytetyistä mainoksista).
Could I use the base verb kiinnostaa here instead of the participle kiinnostunut?