{"id":80,"date":"2004-07-02T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/02\/pondering-plural-partitive"},"modified":"2004-12-09T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T22:40:10","slug":"pondering-plural-partitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/02\/pondering-plural-partitive","title":{"rendered":"Pondering plural partitive"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Warning: Finnish ahead]<\/strong>
\nTalking about inflecting<\/a>… I’ve always wondered why — in Finnish — one way to wish things (“have a nice weekend”, “good night”) can be done with plural + partitive case: viikonloppuja<\/i>, öitä<\/i> respectively. You don’t need any preceding “good” or “nice” words either (e.g. “good night” is hyvää yötä<\/i> in the “normal” way — hyvää<\/i> is, obviously, “good”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Warning: Finnish ahead] Talking about inflecting… I’ve always wondered why — in Finnish — one way to wish things (“have a nice weekend”, “good night”) can be done with plural + partitive case: viikonloppuja, öitä respectively. You don’t need any preceding “good” or “nice” words either (e.g. “good night” is hyvää yötä in the “normal” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}