Breakdown of Jotkut käyttäjät passivoituvat nopeasti tässä verkossa.
tämä
this
nopeasti
fast
joku
somebody, someone
verkko
network
Questions & Answers about Jotkut käyttäjät passivoituvat nopeasti tässä verkossa.
How is the verb passivoituvat formed, and what exactly does the -oitua ending do here?
It is derived from the adjective passiivinen (passive). The suffix -oitua is used to create automative verbs, which describe a process of changing or adapting without a direct outside cause. In this case, it turns passive into the action to become passive. The -vat at the end is simply the third-person plural ending matching the subject.
If passivoitua means to become passive on one's own, how would I say that the network makes the users passive?
You would use the transitive counterpart ending in -oida, which is passivoida (to make passive). This ending shows that an outside agent is doing the action to someone else. For example, Verkko passivoi käyttäjät means The network makes the users passive.
Why is the word for some in the nominative plural (jotkut) instead of the partitive plural (joitakin)?
Jotkut käyttäjät is the subject of the sentence performing the action, so it takes the nominative case. You would use the partitive plural joitakin if the users were the object of an action, such as in Verkko passivoi joitakin käyttäjiä (The network makes some users passive).
Can verkko refer to the internet as a whole, or just a specific network?
Both! Verkko literally means a net or mesh (like a fishing net), but it is the standard word for any network. It can mean a specific social or computer network, or the internet as a whole (often referred to as verkko or netti). Here, tässä verkossa points to one specific network.