Breakdown of Voitko liikuttaa käsinukkea ilman naruja?
voida
can, to be able to
ilman
without
käsinukke
hand puppet
liikuttaa
to move (cause motion, affect emotionally)
naru
string
Questions & Answers about Voitko liikuttaa käsinukkea ilman naruja?
What is the difference between liikuttaa and liikkua, and why is the former used here?
Liikuttaa is a transitive, causative verb meaning 'to move something else'. Liikkua is intransitive and means 'to move oneself'. Since you are acting upon an object (the puppet), you must use liikuttaa.
Why is käsinukkea in the partitive case here instead of the total object case?
Because animating a hand puppet is a continuous, ongoing action with no final endpoint (an irresultative action). If you were instead relocating the puppet from a toy box to a table as a completed task, you would use the total object form käsinuken.
Why does naruja have to be in the partitive plural here?
The word ilman (without) is a preposition that dictates the noun following it must be in the partitive case. Since there are multiple strings, it takes the plural partitive form.
This lesson covers adverbs of exclusive group size like -staan/-stään. How would you ask if two people can move the puppet 'just the two of them'?
You would change the main verb to the second-person plural (voitteko) and add the adverb kaksistaan. The phrase becomes: Voitteko liikuttaa käsinukkea kaksistaan?
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