Breakdown of En tiedä, kenen tekee mieli rasvaisia perunalastuja ja limonadia.
ja
and
kuka
who
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
tietää
to know
Questions & Answers about En tiedä, kenen tekee mieli rasvaisia perunalastuja ja limonadia.
Why is the question word "who" in the genitive case (kenen)?
This is the core of the tekee mieli (to crave) structure. The person experiencing the feeling must be in the genitive case. Because this is an indirect question asking "who" is having the craving, the interrogative pronoun kuka (who) takes its genitive form, kenen.
Why are the objects of the craving (rasvaisia perunalastuja and limonadia) in the partitive case?
In the tekee mieli structure, the thing being craved is always put in the partitive case. This is because a craving expresses an ongoing feeling directed at an unspecified amount of something. Both rasvaisia perunalastuja (greasy potato chips) and limonadia (soda) follow this rule.
If the word kenen referred to multiple people, would the verb tekee change to a plural form?
No, the verb would remain exactly the same. In the tekee mieli structure, the person having the craving is an "experiencer" rather than a true grammatical subject. Because the sentence lacks a traditional subject, the verb is frozen in the third-person singular (tekee).
Why is there a comma before kenen?