Word
Jos tarjoilu on huonoa, meidän täytyy löytää ratkaisu.
Meaning
If the catering is bad, we must find a solution.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Jos tarjoilu on huonoa, meidän täytyy löytää ratkaisu.
olla
to be
huono
bad
löytää
to find
täytyä
to have to
Questions & Answers about Jos tarjoilu on huonoa, meidän täytyy löytää ratkaisu.
Does starting with a jos clause change the word order in the second half of the sentence?
No, unlike some other European languages, Finnish doesn't usually invert the subject and verb when a subordinate clause comes first. The main clause keeps its regular order: meidän täytyy.
Why is the adjective huonoa in the partitive case instead of the basic form huono?
The subject tarjoilu (catering/service) acts as an uncountable concept here. When describing an uncountable or mass noun with the verb olla (to be), the adjective must be in the partitive case.
Why do we use meidän (our) instead of me (we)?
This is a special grammar rule for expressing necessity. When using verbs like täytyy (must / have to), the person who must do the action has to be in the genitive case. So, me becomes meidän.
Why doesn't the object ratkaisu (solution) have an -n ending?
Normally, a complete object gets an -n ending in Finnish. However, there is a strict exception for necessity verbs like täytyy: their objects never take the -n ending and instead stay in the basic nominative form.