Niall Shaky wrote:I'm actually beginning to doubt that
I know the right answer to this one now... so I may as well explain what I was getting at...
My Finnish teacher originally told me that the infinitive would be verb type VI- the verbs that conjugate e.g. for infinitive "ilmetä", to reveal:
ilmenen
ilmenet
ilmenee
etc.
Right?
But they all end -eta, right? e.g. ilmetä, lyhetä, etc.
So now I don't know what the @#$% she was talking about. She was basically saying that the correct infinitive is "parata" ("pareta"?), but that the infinitive has now dropped out of use so now most Finns would go for parantua or parantaa- the imperitive of "parantua" would be "parannu", right?
I'm thinking now that the parane imperitive comes from some irregular verb...
I dunno...
Your teacher is right, but the example wrong. This devision in six classes will do for 99% of all verbs. So, you better stick to it. However, there are in fact 26 groups of verbs and parane is one of the exceptions, it goes in group72. Forget it, just follow what your teacher tells you to do.
In practice it means the same as parantua.
paranee 72 (konsonanttivartaloiset muodot kuten parata, parannut, parattiin, parattu jne. korvautuvat tav. parantua-verbin vastaavilla muodoilla parantua, parantunut, parannettiin, parannettu jne.)
1. ( = parantua). Potilas parani taudista. Parane pian! Sää on paranemaan päin, paranemassa. Asia ei murehtimalla parane. Tästä ei auto parane tämän parempaa autoa ei ole.
2. (vain yks. 3. persoonan muotoja) kans. kielteisissä yhteyksissä: auttaa, hyödyttää, kannattaa. Sitä ei parane kieltääkään. Ei hänen parane panna vastaan. •
