Breakdown of Löysittekö sairauksia kennoistannekin?
löytää
to find
sairaus
the illness
kenno
the honeycomb
Questions & Answers about Löysittekö sairauksia kennoistannekin?
Let's break down the massive word kennoistannekin. In what exact order are all those suffixes attached?
This word perfectly demonstrates the strict Finnish suffix order: Stem + Plural + Case + Possessive + Enclitic. The stem is kenno (honeycomb/cell), followed by the plural marker -i-, then the elative case -sta- (from), the second-person plural possessive -nne (your), and finally the enclitic particle -kin (even/also).
The English translation says "in your honeycombs", but kennoistannekin uses the elative case (-sta, meaning "from"). Why not the inessive (-ssa)?
This is because of the verb löytää (to find). In Finnish, you always find something from a place, rather than in a place. Because of this verb rection, Finnish demands the elative case (-sta) or ablative case (-lta) instead of location cases.
Why is the object sairauksia in the partitive plural instead of the nominative/accusative plural (sairaudet)?
The partitive plural is used here because the object is an unspecified quantity. The question is asking if they found "any diseases" or "some diseases" rather than a specific, known set of diseases (which would take the plural accusative sairaudet).
How does the stem change when going from the basic dictionary word sairaus (disease) to sairauksia?
Nouns ending in -us or -ys that express a quality or state (often derived from adjectives, like sairas to sairaus) change their final -s to -ks- before most suffixes. To this new stem (sairauks-), we add the plural partitive ending -ia.
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