Savipaakulla ei ole vielä muotoa.

to be

Breakdown of Savipaakulla ei ole vielä muotoa.

• ei: not
• vielä: yet
• muoto: the shape; form

Questions & Answers about Savipaakulla ei ole vielä muotoa.

Why is savipaakulla in the -lla form instead of just savipaakku?

Because Finnish often expresses possession with the structure:

possessor + adessive + olla

So:

• savipaakulla = on the clay lump / with the clay lump
• on / ei ole = there is / there is not

Literally, the sentence is something like:

On the clay lump there is not yet shape

That is how Finnish says the clay lump does not yet have a shape.

So -lla here is the adessive case, and in this kind of sentence it marks the possessor.

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What is the dictionary form of savipaakulla?

The dictionary form is savipaakku, meaning a lump of clay or clay lump.

This is a compound word:

• savi = clay
• paakku = lump, clump

Only the last part of the compound changes for case:

• savipaakku → savipaakulla

Notice the consonant change:

• paakku
• stem in weak grade: paaku-
• adessive ending: -lla
• result: paakulla

So savipaakulla is the adessive singular form of savipaakku.

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