Breakdown of Basisti antoi nimikirjoituksen fanille viime perjantaina.
antaa
to give
perjantai
Friday
viime
last (viime vuonna)
fani
fan
Questions & Answers about Basisti antoi nimikirjoituksen fanille viime perjantaina.
Why doesn't viime take the essive ending -na to match perjantaina?
Why is the object nimikirjoituksen rather than the partitive nimikirjoitusta?
The verb antaa (to give) describes a completed action here. Because the bassist successfully gave a single, whole autograph, the object takes the total object case, which is the genitive-looking accusative ending in -n.
Why is "to a fan" translated using the allative case (fanille)?
When you give, say, or bring something to a person, Finnish consistently uses the allative case (-lle). You can think of it as handing the autograph "onto" the fan's possession.
How does the word nimikirjoitus (autograph) get its -ksen ending?