Miten tämä sanotaan englanniksi? - How do you say it in English?
kuinka - how
tämä - this
sanotaan - The present indefinite is formed by adding '-taan' to the inflecting stem of the verb with the consonant in its weak form. The Finnish indefinite would best be described as a "fourth person", since there is no way of connecting the action performed with a particular agent and hence there is only one form of the indefinite. This should become clear through an example: talo maalataan "the house will be/is being painted".
englanniksi-translative (translatiivi) This declension (case) indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of "becoming X" or "change to X". (In hungarian -va' -ve' endings )
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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