Breakdown of Minun on aika hankkia kantoapu tehokkaasti.
olla
to be
minä
I
aika
time (concept, duration)
hankkia
to acquire, to get hold of
tehokkaasti
efficiently
kantoapu
carrying help
Questions & Answers about Minun on aika hankkia kantoapu tehokkaasti.
Why is kantoapu in the nominative case here instead of the genitive/accusative kantoavun?
This is the main rule of nominal necessity constructions like on aika or on pakko. When you have a genitive subject (minun) and a necessity phrase followed by a first infinitive (hankkia), the object drops its normal accusative/genitive ending and appears in the basic nominative form. This is known as the total object rule.
Why do we use the genitive minun instead of the nominative minä or adessive minulla?
In Finnish, expressions of necessity usually take a genitive subject. Phrases like on aika (it is time to) or on pakko (must) require the person who needs to act to be in the genitive case. So, 'It is time for me' translates to Minun on aika.
What components make up the compound word kantoapu?
How do we get the adverb tehokkaasti (efficiently) from the adjective tehokas (efficient)?
Adjectives ending in -kas form their strong inflectional stem by changing the ending to -kkaa-. The stem for tehokas is tehokkaa-. To make it an adverb, you simply add the standard adverb suffix -sti to this stem.
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