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In Finnish as well: juottaa is formed from the verb juoda, ”to drink”, but interestingly it is just a case of a general grammatical construction that allows one
by Sharlin 6y ago
In Finnish as well: juottaa is formed from the verb juoda, ”to drink”, but interestingly it is just a case of a general grammatical construction that allows one to turn any verb from ”to do something” to ”to make/have one to do something”. You can even apply it recursively to verbs thus formed, so, for example, juotattaa would mean ”to have someone else feed someone/something liquid”! In principle the grammar allows arbitrarily long constructions, but in practice double applications are already rare although perfectly understandable.