Word
Hän taisi häkeltyä tästä kohtaamisesta.
Meaning
He probably got flustered by this encounter.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Hän taisi häkeltyä tästä kohtaamisesta.
tämä
this
hän
he / she
taitaa
to seem to, probably (does)
kohtaaminen
encounter
Questions & Answers about Hän taisi häkeltyä tästä kohtaamisesta.
This lesson is about verbs like sattua taking the 1st infinitive. Is taisi doing the same thing here?
Yes! Taisi is the past tense of the verb taitaa. Just like sattua, it takes the 1st infinitive (the dictionary form) of the main verb, which is häkeltyä here. While sattua expresses chance, taitaa expresses assumption or probability, making taisi häkeltyä mean 'probably got flustered'.
Since the current lesson focuses on sattua, how would the sentence change if we swapped taisi for sattui?
The grammar would remain exactly the same, because both verbs govern the 1st infinitive: Hän sattui häkeltyä tästä kohtaamisesta. However, the meaning shifts from an assumption ('He probably got flustered') to a coincidence ('He happened to get flustered').
Why are the words for 'this encounter' in the elative case (tästä kohtaamisesta)?
In Finnish, verbs that describe emotional reactions or cognitive changes—like häkeltyä (to get flustered or taken aback)—usually require the cause of the reaction to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). You can think of it as getting flustered 'out of' or 'from' the encounter.
How is the noun kohtaamisesta formed?