Breakdown of Uusi voimala tuo uusiutuvaa sähköä niin tehtaisiin kuin koteihinkin.
uusi
new
tuoda
to bring
koti
the home
tehdas
factory
kuin
than / before (in 'ennen kuin') / like / as
sähkö
electricity
niin
both (in 'niin ... kuin ... -kin')
uusiutuva
renewable
voimala
power plant
Questions & Answers about Uusi voimala tuo uusiutuvaa sähköä niin tehtaisiin kuin koteihinkin.
Why does koteihin have the -kin suffix at the end?
Both tehtaisiin and koteihin are in the illative (into) case. Why not use the allative (onto) case for bringing something "to" these places?
In Finnish, buildings and enclosed spaces like tehdas (factory) and koti (home) typically take the internal locative cases (in, out of, into). You bring electricity "into" them. If you were bringing something to a person or an open area, you would use the external allative case instead.
How is the illative plural tehtaisiin formed from the base word tehdas?
Words ending in -as or -äs (like tehdas) have a strong vowel stem ending in -aa- or -ää- (here, tehtaa-). To form the plural, the plural marker -i- is added, changing the stem to tehtai-. For this specific stem type, the illative plural ending is -siin, giving us tehtaisiin.
Why is uusiutuvaa sähköä in the partitive case here?
sähkö (electricity) is an uncountable mass noun. Because the sentence describes bringing an undefined, continuous amount of electricity rather than a single completed unit, it acts as a partitive object.
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