Breakdown of Tiesitkö yksinoikeudesta, kun uusit lisenssin?
tietää
to know
kun
when (conjunction)
lisenssi
the license
yksinoikeus
the exclusive right
uusia
to renew (e.g. passport, contract)
Questions & Answers about Tiesitkö yksinoikeudesta, kun uusit lisenssin?
The current lesson is about kunhan (provided that). Could we use kunhan instead of kun in this sentence?
No. The conjunction kunhan sets a condition for a potential or future event (meaning "as long as" or "provided that"). Because this sentence asks about a factual, completed event in the past (you already renewed the license), the standard temporal conjunction kun (when) must be used.
Why is yksinoikeus (exclusive right) in the elative case (yksinoikeudesta)?
The verb tietää (to know) requires the elative case (-sta or -stä) when expressing that you know about something. Therefore, yksinoikeudesta means "about the exclusive right".
How does the word yksinoikeus change to become yksinoikeudesta?
It is a compound word made of yksin (alone/solely) and oikeus (right). Nouns ending in -eus or -uus generally change their stem to -eude- or -uude- before taking most case endings. Thus, oikeus becomes oikeude-, and adding the elative ending -sta gives us yksinoikeudesta.
Why does lisenssi take the -n ending (lisenssin) here?
The verb uusia (to renew) represents a completed action here. Because the action was fully carried out by a specific subject (you), the object takes the genitive-accusative ending -n to show it is a total object.
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