Word
Pidättekö vahaa savuttimissannekin?
Meaning
Do you keep wax even in your smokers?
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Pidättekö vahaa savuttimissannekin?
pitää
to hold / take (a break)
vaha
the wax
savutin
the smoker
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Questions & Answers about Pidättekö vahaa savuttimissannekin?
Can you break down the exact order of the suffixes on savuttimissannekin?
It perfectly follows the standard Finnish suffix order rule: Stem + Plural + Case + Possessive + Clitic. The plural stem is savuttimi-. To this, we attach the inessive case -ssa (in), the 2nd person plural possessive -nne (your), and the enclitic particle -kin (also/even). This gives us savuttimi + ssa + nne + kin.
How did the base word savutin (smoker) turn into the stem savuttimi-?
Nouns ending in -in usually describe tools or instruments, and their stem changes to -ime- when adding suffixes (just like puhelin becomes puhelime-). When we add the plural marker -i-, the final -e- of the stem drops, giving us the plural stem savuttimi-.
Why doesn't pidättekö mean "do you like" in this sentence?
The verb pitää only means "to like" when the object is in the elative case (ending in -sta or -stä). Because vahaa is in the partitive case here, pitää takes on its other major meaning: to keep, hold, or retain.
Why is vaha (wax) in the partitive case (vahaa)?