Breakdown of Lääkäri hypnotisoi potilaan, joka menee syvään transsiin.
lääkäri
doctor
mennä
to go
joka
who / which (relative pronoun)
syvä
deep
Questions & Answers about Lääkäri hypnotisoi potilaan, joka menee syvään transsiin.
How could we rewrite this sentence using this lesson's target structure to say 'The doctor got the patient to go into a deep trance'?
You would say: Lääkäri sai potilaan menemään syvään transsiin. We use sai (the past tense of saada), keep the object potilaan, and change the verb mennä into its 3rd infinitive illative form, menemään.
Is the verb hypnotisoi in the present or past tense here?
It can actually be either! For verbs ending in -oida or -öidä (like hypnotisoida), the third-person singular form is identical in both the present (hän hypnotisoi) and the past tense (hän hypnotisoi). You have to rely on broader context to know if the doctor is hypnotizing or hypnotized the patient.
Why is the object potilaan in the genitive-accusative case (ending in -n) rather than the partitive?
The action of hypnotizing someone into a trance is viewed as a complete, bounded action with a clear result. Because the action is completed and successfully affects the whole object, we use the total object form, which for a singular noun takes the -n ending.
Why does 'into a deep trance' translate using the illative case (syvään transsiin)?
In Finnish, verbs of motion or transition like mennä (to go) use the illative case (mihin, or 'into where') not just for physical destinations, but also for entering abstract states, moods, and conditions.