Breakdown of Ne luulee, et suojelualue on huono maatalouden kannalta.
olla
to be
he
they
huono
bad
että
that (conjunction)
luulla
to think, to suppose
kannalta
from the perspective of
maatalous
agriculture
suojelualue
conservation area
Questions & Answers about Ne luulee, et suojelualue on huono maatalouden kannalta.
Why do we use the genitive case maatalouden before kannalta?
Kannalta is a postposition meaning "from the perspective of" or "in terms of", and it requires the word before it to be in the genitive case. It literally comes from the noun kanta (base, stance, opinion) in the ablative case (-lta), so you are literally saying "from the stance of agriculture".
Why does the sentence use ne luulee instead of the standard he luulevat?
This sentence reflects colloquial spoken Finnish. In everyday speech, the pronoun ne (literally "those") is almost always used for "they" instead of the formal he. When using ne, the verb also shifts to the third-person singular form, dropping the plural -vat ending to become luulee.
Is the word et a typo for että (that)?
No, et is the standard spoken-language shortening of että. It is extremely common to drop the final vowel of this conjunction in everyday conversations.
What is the base form of maatalouden, and why does the ending change like that?
The base form is maatalous (agriculture), which is a compound of maa (land) and talous (economy). Nouns ending in -us usually change their stem to -ude- before adding case endings, making the genitive form maatalouden.
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