Breakdown of On hyväksyttävää, että täällä eletään niin.
olla
to be
täällä
here
niin
so
että
that (conjunction)
elää
to live, to be alive
hyväksyttävä
acceptable
Questions & Answers about On hyväksyttävää, että täällä eletään niin.
Why is hyväksyttävää in the partitive case rather than the nominative (hyväksyttävä)?
Because it is an evaluative adjective describing an että subject clause. When an että clause acts as the subject, adjectives expressing an opinion or value judgment (like "acceptable", "important", or "nice") must take the partitive case. If it were a truth-value adjective (like selvä for "clear" or varma for "certain"), it would take the nominative.
What is the root of the word hyväksyttävää, and how is it built?
It comes from the verb hyväksyä (to accept). By adding the passive present participle ending -ttävä, it becomes an adjective meaning "to be accepted" or "acceptable" (hyväksyttävä). Finally, the extra -ä at the end is the partitive marker required by this specific sentence structure.
The English translation says "people live", but there is no word for "people" here. How does that work?
Finnish naturally uses the passive voice to express general statements where English uses "people", "they", or "one". Eletään is the passive present form of elää (to live). While you could technically say ihmiset elävät, it often sounds unnaturally specific in Finnish, as if you were contrasting human beings with animals.
Why is the location word täällä placed right after että instead of at the end of the sentence?
Because passive clauses lack a formal subject, Finnish strongly prefers to put a "scene-setting" word—usually a time or place adverb like täällä—at the beginning of the clause to anchor the sentence. Writing ...että eletään niin täällä isn't strictly wrong, but it feels clunky and lacks flow.
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