Breakdown of Käytämme järkeä, emme tunteita.
ei
no / not (negative verb)
käyttää
to use
tunne
the feeling (emotion)
järki
sense, intellect
Questions & Answers about Käytämme järkeä, emme tunteita.
Why are the objects järkeä and tunteita in the partitive case?
How is the form järkeä built from its dictionary form?
The dictionary form is järki (reason or sense). It belongs to a group of older Finnish words ending in -i where the stem changes the -i to an -e- before adding endings. Adding the partitive -ä gives us järkeä.
What is the base word for tunteita, and how does it get this plural form?
The base word is tunne (feeling). Words ending in -e have a stem ending in a double vowel (here, tuntee-). To make the partitive plural, we add the plural -i- and the partitive suffix -ta. The double vowel shortens before the -i-, resulting in tunteita.
Why isn't the main verb repeated in the second half of the sentence?
To avoid repetition, Finnish often drops the main verb in contrastive phrases like this, similar to English. The full phrase would be emme käytä tunteita, but just using the negative verb emme alongside the object is much more natural and concise.