Breakdown of Järjestelmässä kaikki automatisoituu nopeasti.
nopeasti
fast
kaikki
all, everything, everyone
järjestelmä
system
automatisoitua
to become automated
Questions & Answers about Järjestelmässä kaikki automatisoituu nopeasti.
How does the -oitua suffix change the meaning of the verb in automatisoituu?
The suffix -oitua is highly productive, especially with loanwords, for creating intransitive verbs of process. Here, the base is the transitive verb automatisoida (to automate something). Adding -oitua drops the transitive aspect and makes it automatisoitua: to become automated on its own, as a process.
Why is automatisoituu in the singular form when kaikki means "all" or "everything"?
In Finnish, the pronoun kaikki takes a third-person singular verb when it acts as a collective concept meaning "everything." So, kaikki automatisoituu uses the singular -uu ending. You would only use the plural automatisoituvat if kaikki referred to specific, countable items previously mentioned (meaning "all of them").
Is there a reason we use -oitua here instead of its twin suffix -öityä?
Yes, it is strictly due to vowel harmony. The root loanword is related to automaatti, which contains the back vowels a and u. Therefore, it must take the back-vowel suffix variant -oitua, resulting in the ending -oituu. You would use -öityä for words with front vowels, like henkilö becoming henkilöityä.
Järjestelmä (system) is a long word. What familiar root is hiding inside järjestelmässä?
It comes from the verb järjestää (to organize or arrange). The suffix -elmä is added to verbs to form nouns that describe a complex structure or collection of things. So, an arranged entity becomes a system (järjestelmä), and the -ssä ending simply means "in".
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