Word
Minun tekee mieli rasvaista hampurilaista.
Meaning
I am craving a greasy hamburger.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Minun tekee mieli rasvaista hampurilaista.
minä
I
tehdä
to do
mieli
mind / opinion (mind, mood)
rasvainen
greasy
Questions & Answers about Minun tekee mieli rasvaista hampurilaista.
Why is 'I' expressed as minun (genitive) instead of minä?
This sentence uses the 'syntax of desire'. In this structure, the person experiencing the craving is always in the genitive case (minun), while the verb phrase remains tekee mieli.
If I change this to 'we are craving', does the verb tekee change to teemme?
No, the verb is frozen in the third-person singular (tekee). Only the genitive experiencer changes. For example, 'we are craving' would be meidän tekee mieli.
Why are rasvaista and hampurilaista in the partitive case here?
The object of a tekee mieli craving must be in the partitive case. Even though a hamburger is a countable object, you use the partitive because the action of 'craving' is an ongoing feeling, not a completed physical action.
I know the base words are rasvainen and hampurilainen. How exactly do they become rasvaista and hampurilaista?
Words ending in -nen change that ending to -s- before taking the partitive suffix -ta. So rasvainen becomes the stem rasvais- plus -ta, resulting in rasvaista.