Breakdown of Aseettomat ottelijat iskevät toinen toistaan kohti.
toinen
other, another; second
kohti
towards
iskeä
to strike
ottelija
the fighter
aseeton
unarmed
Questions & Answers about Aseettomat ottelijat iskevät toinen toistaan kohti.
Why is it toinen toistaan instead of just toisiaan?
Toinen toistaan is a more formal, distributive way to say "each other". It emphasizes the individual actions (one towards the other) rather than treating the fighters as a collective group. The first toinen is in the nominative case, and the second is in the case required by the rest of the sentence, followed by a possessive suffix.
Why is the second part of the reciprocal phrase in the partitive case (toistaan)?
The case is dictated by the postposition kohti (towards), which requires the word it modifies to be in the partitive. Therefore, the second toinen becomes toista, and then the third-person possessive suffix -an is added to make toistaan.
The fighters are plural (ottelijat), so why are both parts of toinen toistaan in the singular?
In this specific formal reciprocal structure, you always use the singular forms of the word toinen, even when referring to a plural subject. Think of it literally as "one towards another", focusing on the individual interactions between the fighters rather than the group as a whole.
How is the word aseettomat formed?
It comes from the noun ase (weapon). Adding the caritive suffix -ton (a suffix meaning "without") creates the adjective aseeton (unarmed). Because the subject ottelijat is plural, the adjective must agree with it, taking the plural nominative form aseettomat.
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