Breakdown of Me jätämme teidät tänne.
me
we
tänne
to here
jättää
to leave (something behind)
teidät
you (plural)
Questions & Answers about Me jätämme teidät tänne.
Why is the word for 'you' teidät instead of te?
Teidät is the accusative (object) form of te (you, plural or formal). Because 'you' is the target receiving the action of being left, we use this specific form. In Finnish, all personal pronouns have a special accusative form ending in -t.
Does jätämme mean 'we leave' or 'we will leave'?
It can mean both! Finnish doesn't have a separate future tense. The present tense is used for both current and future actions. You can tell from the context whether the sentence means 'We are leaving you here' right now, or 'We will leave you here' later on.
Why use tänne instead of täällä for 'here'?
Finnish uses different location words depending on whether there is movement. Täällä means being stationary in a place, but tänne means movement to a place. Even though 'leaving' someone sounds stationary in English, Finnish thinks of it as leaving someone into a location, so it requires the directional word tänne.
Can we drop the word Me from this sentence?
Yes! You can simply say Jätämme teidät tänne. Because the verb ending -mme already tells us that 'we' are doing the action, the pronoun me is optional and is usually only kept to add emphasis.
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