Questions & Answers about Painaako seiväskin 2 kiloa?
Why is the measure object "2 kiloa" written with the number in the nominative case, while "kiloa" is partitive?
Exact measurements of weight, like distance and time, behave as total objects. Since this clause is not negative, the numeral kaksi takes the nominative (acting as the accusative total object). The word kiloa is in the partitive singular simply because it follows a number greater than one in the nominative.
If I wanted to say "The pole doesn't weigh 2 kilos", how would the cases in "2 kiloa" change?
Just like regular syntactic objects, measure objects must switch entirely to the partitive case in negative sentences. The number kaksi would change to the partitive kahta, giving you ei paina kahta kiloa.
Both Painaako and seiväskin have suffixes attached. Why is the sentence ordered this way?
The question enclitic -ko attaches to the word you are questioning (here, the verb painaa) and automatically pulls it to the front of the sentence. The enclitic -kin means "also" and attaches directly to the word it modifies, which is seiväs.
The noun here is seiväs. How does its stem behave if we need to put it into a different case?
Nouns ending in -as or -äs have a stem that undergoes consonant gradation and vowel lengthening. For seiväs, the weak v strengthens to a p, and the ä doubles, making the stem seipää-. For example, the genitive would be seipään.
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