Breakdown of Näissä yhteisöissä ahkeroidaan yhdessä ja arvostetaan yhteisöllisyyttä.
tämä
this
ja
and
yhdessä
together
arvostaa
to appreciate
Questions & Answers about Näissä yhteisöissä ahkeroidaan yhdessä ja arvostetaan yhteisöllisyyttä.
How can the verb ahkeroida be in the passive if it doesn't take an object?
In Finnish, the passive isn't limited to transitive verbs (verbs with objects). It is frequently used with intransitive verbs like ahkeroida (to work hard) to express a collective action where the 'doer' is an undefined group of people. Here, ahkeroidaan translates best as 'people work hard' or 'one works hard'.
Does the passive voice imply the same type of actor for both ahkeroidaan and arvostetaan in this sentence?
Yes! Even though ahkeroidaan is an intransitive action ('people work hard') and arvostetaan is a transitive action ('a sense of community is valued'), both passives refer to the exact same unspecified group of people. Finnish seamlessly strings them together with ja to describe the general atmosphere created by the people in these communities.
Normally the object of a passive verb is in the nominative case. Why is yhteisöllisyyttä in the partitive here?
While it is true that total objects in passive sentences usually drop into the nominative case, the verb arvostaa (to value, to appreciate) is an emotion/attitude verb that strictly requires a partitive object. This partitive rule overrides the general passive object rule, so the object yhteisöllisyys must become yhteisöllisyyttä.
The words yhteisö, yhdessä, and yhteisöllisyys look very similar. How are they formed?