Breakdown of Muistan rohkaisseeni sekä poikia että tyttöjä.
poika
boy
tyttö
girl
muistaa
to remember
että
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about Muistan rohkaisseeni sekä poikia että tyttöjä.
Why does rohkaisseeni have the -ni suffix?
This is the referative construction (partisiippirakenne) acting as an object clause. The full equivalent clause would be että rohkaisin (that I encouraged). Because the subject of the main clause (I remember) matches the subject of the participle clause (I encouraged), we don't use a separate genitive pronoun like minun. Instead, we attach the first-person singular possessive suffix -ni directly to the participle to show who did the encouraging.
How would this sentence change if I remembered someone else encouraging them?
If the subjects didn't match, you would put the subject of the second action in the genitive case before the participle, and the participle wouldn't take a possessive suffix. For example, 'I remember him encouraging...' would be Muistan hänen rohkaisseen... The participle simply takes the regular genitive -n ending.
How exactly is the form rohkaisseeni built from the dictionary verb rohkaista?
Because the encouraging happened in the past, we use the past active participle. For rohkaista, the basic participle is rohkaissut. In the referative construction, the participle goes into the genitive case, giving the stem rohkaissee- (the basic genitive form is rohkaisseen). When we add the possessive suffix -ni, the genitive -n drops away, resulting in rohkaisseeni.
Why are the objects and in the partitive case here?