Breakdown of Otan yhteyttä lääkäriin huomenna.
lääkäri
doctor
huomenna
tomorrow
ottaa yhteyttä
to get in touch, to contact
Questions & Answers about Otan yhteyttä lääkäriin huomenna.
Why does "to contact" translate to ottaa yhteyttä with the partitive case?
The phrase literally means "to take connection." Because the noun yhteys (connection) is abstract and uncountable in this context, it takes the partitive case (yhteyttä).
Why is the doctor in the illative case (lääkäriin) rather than the allative (lääkärille)?
The verb phrase ottaa yhteyttä strongly governs the illative case for the person or entity you are contacting. You can think of it as establishing a connection into them.
This lesson is about the prolative case (-tse) for means of communication. How would I add "by phone" to this sentence?
You would use the prolative form of the noun puhelin, which is puhelimitse. You can simply add it to the sentence to say: Otan yhteyttä lääkäriin huomenna puhelimitse.
Is the word huomenna actually conjugated in a specific case here?
Yes, it is in the essive case (-na). The base word is an old noun huomen (meaning morning or morrow). Using the essive case is the standard way to turn it into the time expression "tomorrow" in Finnish.
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