Talk:halukas

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Can halukas be used attributively together with a verb in the third infinitive illative expressing the acction one is willing to do, like in "tämän tekemään halukas oleva poika on uskalias" (The boy who is willing to do this is daring)?--201.95.65.32 17:16, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Not quite so, it goes rather like this: Poika, joka on halukas tekemään tämän, on rohkea. The basic structure is "olla halukas johonkin" (to be willing to something). --Hekaheka 09:23, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Wrote a usage note in the entry halukas. --Hekaheka 15:59, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... I see. Can yet halukas alone be used attributively when the thing one wants to do is subtended, like in:

-Kuka voi tehdä tätä työtä? Etsi halukas joku!

-Halukas sotilas tulee.

Or should it be still:

-Kuka voi tehdä tätä työtä? Etsi joku, joka on halukas!

-Sotilas joka on halukas tulee. --201.95.57.167 23:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think it can be used attributively, but I believe only with nouns. Etsi halukas joku is wrong, it should be Etsi joku halukas (Etsi joku, joka on halukas is ok as well). Halukas sotilas tulee is grammatically correct but IMHO sounds slightly weird, ditto for Sotilas, joka on halukas, tulee. --Epiq 15:50, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Further, a soldier is almost never "halukas". He might be (deprecated template usage) vapaaehtoinen. --Hekaheka 11:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll add than to the usage notes that halukas can be used attributively but postponed if accompanied by a pronoun.