Breakdown of Tämä on välttämätön varotoimenpide tsunamin takia.
tämä
this
olla
to be
takia
because of
välttämätön
essential
varotoimenpide
the precautionary measure
tsunami
the tsunami
Questions & Answers about Tämä on välttämätön varotoimenpide tsunamin takia.
The current lesson is about johdosta, vuoksi, and ansiosta. Why is takia used here, and what is the difference?
Takia is the most common, everyday postposition for "because of" or "due to". Words like johdosta and vuoksi mean almost exactly the same thing but are much more formal. Ansiosta is specifically for positive reasons ("thanks to"), which wouldn't fit a tsunami! Like the formal options, takia always requires the word before it to be in the genitive case (tsunamin).
Varotoimenpide is quite long. What are the parts of this compound word?
It breaks down into varo- (related to caution or warning, from the verb varoa, to beware) and toimenpide (measure, procedure, or action). The word toimenpide itself is made from toimi (action or duty), the genitive -n, and pide (a hold or item, related to the verb pitää). Put them all together, and you get "precautionary measure".
How is the adjective välttämätön formed?
It literally means "unavoidable". It is formed by taking the verb välttää (to avoid) and adding the suffix -mätön (or -maton), which creates an adjective meaning that something has not been done or cannot be done. In English, an "unavoidable" measure translates smoothly as a "necessary" or "indispensable" one.
Why are välttämätön and varotoimenpide in the nominative case instead of the partitive?
This is a standard "A is B" sentence where the subject (Tämä) represents a singular, countable concept. When describing a singular, countable noun in this type of sentence structure, the describing words (the predicative) stay in the basic nominative case. You would only use the partitive here if the subject were an uncountable mass noun or a plural.
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