Comments on: Finnish Grammar: The object http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/ Observations from Finland Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.8 By: Hän http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-401 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:50:14 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-401 Minun täytyy opiskella matematiikkaa. Minun pitää ajaa autoa.

Just follow the flowchart.

Is the clause negative or positive? positive
Is the object an indefined quantity or does it contain a numeral? No
Is the object part of a process that is not finished yet? Yes
The object is in partitive.

For the sake of comparison, consider also the following sentences.

Opiskelen itselleni ammatin. Minun täytyy opiskella itselleni ammatti.
Ajan auton korjaamolle. Minun pitää ajaa auto korjaamolle.

]]> By: Arctica http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-399 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:53:24 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-399 Errmmm… no idea why that is =( Apparently partitive always has priority over nominative, but I don’t know why that applies in these cases…

]]> By: Jason http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-397 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:23:33 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-397 Hey, great chart, but you say when the clause is täytyy, on pakko, pitää then it goes to nominitive, mutta mutta, Minun täytyy opiskella matematiikkaa ja minun pitää ajaa autoa. Onko?

]]> By: helen http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-114 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:31:43 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-114 thanks so much

will test it 🙂

]]> By: Arctica http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-113 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:25:21 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-113 Thanks =) Yes, I thought that “I don’t eat apple” example was a bit weird, but I wanted to stick with the same sentence wherever possible – your suggestion would have been great, but apparently I didn’t think that far =)

]]> By: Liisa / Day With A Local Helsinki http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-112 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:37:25 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-112 Hi, great idea again to tell about the complexity of our language. By the way, as a Finn I’d rather say ‘I don’t eat apples’ – ‘En syö omenoita’ if it’s about apples in general. If it’s about the present then it could be ‘En syö omenaa vaan päärynää’ – ‘I’m not eating an apple, I’m eating a pear.’. If I’d be in a shop I would say ‘Otetaanko omenia/muutama omena/omenoita?’ – ‘Shall we take some apples?’ and so on. 😀

]]> By: Arctica http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-101 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:11:15 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-101 It’s called WPGlobus – it’s very straightforward to use, and I think it’s quite good apart from the fact that I can’t place the button to swap language anywhere else than on the very bottom (although I think that’s actually the fault of the template, not the plugin)

]]> By: helen http://www.finteresting.net/2016/02/15/finnish-grammar-objects/#comment-100 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:55:11 +0000 http://www.finteresting.net/?p=124#comment-100 just realized that your blog runs in german and english, can you tell me which plugin for wordpress you are using?

kiitos 🙂

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