Learn Finnish: Meidän joukkueemme voitti. Entä teidän?

In standard Finnish, when you use a possessive pronoun like meidän (our), you also need to attach the matching possessive suffix to the noun. Meidän always pairs with -mme, creating meidän joukkueemme. In casual speech, people often drop the suffix and just say meidän joukkue.

This lesson is about -ko/-kö questions. How would I ask 'Did your team win?' instead of 'What about yours?'

To ask a direct yes/no question, you attach the clitic -ko to the verb and move it to the front of the sentence. This gives you Voittiko teidän joukkueenne? Notice that the pronoun teidän (your) requires the matching suffix -nne on the noun.

How would I use that to form an indirect question, like 'I don't know if your team won'?

In indirect questions, the -ko/-kö clitic works like the English words 'if' or 'whether'. You would say En tiedä, voittiko teidän joukkueenne. The verb with the clitic comes right after the comma, creating the indirect question.

What is the purpose of the word entä?

Entä translates to 'what about' or 'how about'. It is a very common and handy word for bouncing a question back to the listener or shifting the focus slightly, without needing to build a whole new sentence.

Why is it just teidän at the end and not teidän joukkueenne?