Breakdown of Liikutamme viidestään raskaita lavasteita nukketeatterissa.
raskas
heavy (also burdensome, e.g. work)
lavaste
set piece
nukketeatteri
puppet theatre
liikuttaa
to move (cause motion, affect emotionally)
viidestään
the five of us / the five of them
Questions & Answers about Liikutamme viidestään raskaita lavasteita nukketeatterissa.
The translation says "The five of us", but viidestään ends with the 3rd person suffix -ään. Shouldn't it be viidestämme?
You can technically use viidestämme, but in modern Finnish, the 3rd person forms like viidestään (along with kahdestaan, kolmestaan, etc.) have become fixed adverbs. They are standardly used for all persons. The verb liikutamme already makes it perfectly clear that "we" are doing the action.
I learned that "to move" is liikkua. Why does this sentence use liikuttaa?
Liikkua is an intransitive verb, meaning it's used when a subject moves itself. Because the group is moving something else (the stage sets), you must use the causative, transitive verb liikuttaa.
Why is the object raskaita lavasteita in the partitive case?
Moving heavy sets is presented here as an ongoing, continuous process rather than a completed, total action. When an action is ongoing or incomplete, the object of the sentence takes the partitive case.
How do we get the form lavasteita from the base word lavaste?
Words ending in -e have a stem ending in -ee- (making it lavastee-). When you add the plural marker -i-, the double vowel shortens to a single -e-, giving the plural stem lavastei-. Finally, you add the partitive ending -ta.
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