Word
Virtuoosi häikäisi meidät, ja hänen uusi teoksensa on mestariteos.
Meaning
The virtuoso dazzled us, and his new work is a masterpiece.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Virtuoosi häikäisi meidät, ja hänen uusi teoksensa on mestariteos.
olla
to be
ja
and
uusi
new
meidät
us
Questions & Answers about Virtuoosi häikäisi meidät, ja hänen uusi teoksensa on mestariteos.
How could we rewrite this sentence to use the current lesson's target structure 'ei ainoastaan ... vaan myös'?
You could link the thoughts by replacing ja with the correlative conjunction pair. However, remember that ei ainoastaan contains the negative verb ei. This forces the first verb into the negative past participle and changes the total object into a partitive object: Virtuoosi ei ainoastaan häikäissyt meitä, vaan hänen uusi teoksensa on myös mestariteos.
Why is the object meidät and not the partitive meitä in the original sentence?
Personal pronouns like me take a special accusative ending -t when they are total objects. Because the original sentence describes a completed, affirmative action where the virtuoso successfully dazzled us, it takes the total object form meidät.
In the phrase hänen uusi teoksensa (his new work), why doesn't the adjective uusi get a possessive suffix too?
While adjectives normally agree with their nouns in case and number, possessive suffixes are strictly attached to the head noun only. The genitive pronoun hänen indicates the owner, the adjective uusi modifies the noun, and only the noun teos receives the possessive suffix -nsa.
What type of verb is häikäisi (dazzled), and how is this past tense form built?