Vocab: kuuluma - to belong
to belong; to be part of; to be in someone’s possession; to belong to a group or category; to be in the right/suitable place
Building blocks
kuulu- → stem (belonging/being part of something/fitting somewhere)
-ma → infinitive ending
It’s borrowed from the Finnish kuulua (to be heard, to belong)
How to use it
What to remember
To whom or what something belongs is in the Allative case (ending -le)
Example
See kunstiteos kuulub muuseumile ja seda ei tohi loata välja viia
Literally: “This artwork belongs museum-onto and it not must without permisson out to take”
Idiomatically: “This artwork belongs to the museum and it must not be taken out without permission”
See - Pronoun - Nominative Singular: "This"
kunstiteos - Noun - Nominative Singular: "artwork"
kuulub - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "belongs"
muuseumile - Noun - Allative Singular: "to museum"
ja - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
seda - Pronoun - Partitive Singular: "this/it"
ei tohi - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Negative Present Tense: "must not"
loata - Noun - Abessive Singular: "without permission"
välja - Adverb - Indeclinable: "out"
viia - Verb - da-Infinitve: "to take"