Breakdown of Sytytän lampun, koska huone on edelleen pimeä.
Questions & Answers about Sytytän lampun, koska huone on edelleen pimeä.
Sytytän is the 1st person singular present tense form of the verb sytyttää (“to light, to turn on [a light]”). Morphologically it breaks down as:
- sytyt- (stem of sytyttää)
- -ä- (present tense marker)
- -n (1 sg ending)
So sytytän literally means “I light” or “I turn on.”
No. After koska, Finnish subordinate clauses generally keep the same basic SVO (subject–verb–object) order as main clauses. In our example:
Subject: huone (the room)
Verb: on (is)
Adverb: edelleen (still)
Predicate adjective: pimeä (dark)
Both edelleen and vielä can mean “still.” Differences:
- edelleen is slightly more formal and often emphasizes continuity.
- vielä is more neutral or colloquial and can sometimes mean “yet.”
You could also say huone on vielä pimeä, but edelleen sounds a bit more formal or literary.
Yes, but with a small adjustment.
- koska = “because” (a reason‐introducing conjunction)
- siksi että = “for that reason that” (lit. “therefore that”)
If you use siksi että, the sentence becomes:
Sytytän lampun, siksi että huone on edelleen pimeä.
That construction is slightly heavier/ more emphatic.
Absolutely. In Finnish you can front the subordinate clause:
Koska huone on edelleen pimeä, sytytän lampun.
When the koska–clause comes first, the comma is obligatory.