-nut
FinnishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *-nut.
SuffixEdit
-nut (front vowel harmony variant -nyt)
- Used to form past indicative connegative forms of verbs.
- En ole tehnyt mitään.
- I have done nothing.
- Used to form past active participle forms of verbs.
- Sadat sukset tehneenä tiedän, mistä puhun.
- Having made one hundred pairs of skis I know what I'm talking about.
- Sen tehneenä henkilönä hänen pitäisi tietää.
- As the person who made it, s/he should know.
Usage notesEdit
- (past active participle): Some inflected forms have specific uses:
- genitive singular: used with verbs of reporting or observing to refer to someone having done an action according to that report or observation.
- Hänen sanotaan tehneen sen.
- S/he was said to have done it.
- genitive singular: used with verbs of reporting or observing to refer to someone having done an action according to that report or observation.
- This ending is used with the verbs that end in a long (doubled) -a/-ä, diphthong or in -da/-dä, i.e. the verbs of the following conjugation classes:
- *) Listing currently included in "kaivaa" and "muistaa" -classes.
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of -nut (Kotus type 47/kuollut, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | -nut | -neet | |
genitive | -neen | -neiden -neitten | |
partitive | -nutta | -neita | |
illative | -neeseen | -neisiin -neihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | -nut | -neet | |
accusative | nom. | -nut | -neet |
gen. | -neen | ||
genitive | -neen | -neiden -neitten | |
partitive | -nutta | -neita | |
inessive | -neessa | -neissa | |
elative | -neesta | -neista | |
illative | -neeseen | -neisiin -neihin | |
adessive | -neella | -neilla | |
ablative | -neelta | -neilta | |
allative | -neelle | -neille | |
essive | -neena | -neina | |
translative | -neeksi | -neiksi | |
instructive | — | -nein | |
abessive | -neetta | -neitta | |
comitative | — | -neine |
Possessive forms of -nut (type kuollut) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | -neeni | -neemme |
2nd person | -neesi | -neenne |
3rd person | -neensa | |
Only used with substantive adjectives, -inen adjectives used for comparisons of equality or agent participles. |