tehdäkseen

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Finnish

Alternative forms

  • tehdäkseni (first-person singular)
  • tehdäksesi (second-person singular)
  • tehdäkseentehdäksensä (third-person singular)
  • tehdäksemme (first-person plural)
  • tehdäksenne (second-person plural)
  • tehdäkseentehdäksensä (third-person plural)

Verb

tehdäkseen

  1. third-person form of the long first infinitive of tehdä
    Spyker osti Saabin tehdäkseen merkistä entistäkin arvostetumman.
    Spyker bought Saab in order to make the brand even more prestigious.

Usage notes

  • This verb form can be used only in a participial phrase and only if the clauses have the same subject. This also needs always a possessive suffix appended — the suffix depends on the subject of the clauses: "I" -> -ni, "you" (singular) -> -si, "he/she/it/they" -> -nsä or -en, "we" -> -mme, "you" (plural) -> -nne. Thus, the possible forms are tehdäkseni, tehdäksesi, tehdäksensä or tehdäkseen (see the usage notes for -nsä), tehdäksemme and tehdäksenne.