Word
Mua jännittää tosi paljon.
Meaning
I am really nervous.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mua jännittää tosi paljon.
paljon
a lot
tosi
really (intensifier)
mä
I (spoken, incl. mun, mua, mulla, mulle)
jännittää
to make nervous / to feel nervous
Questions & Answers about Mua jännittää tosi paljon.
What form of the pronoun is mua?
Mua is the spoken language (puhekieli) form of minua, which is the partitive case of minä (I).
Why is the partitive case (mua) used here instead of the basic subject form (mä)?
This is because jännittää is a 'feeling verb'. In Finnish, instead of saying 'I am nervous', the structure translates closer to 'It makes me nervous' or 'Nervousness affects me'. The person experiencing the emotion is the object of the feeling, so they are put in the partitive case.
If the sentence is about 'me', why isn't the verb conjugated in the first person (jännitän)?
Because the structure acts like 'It makes me nervous', the grammatical subject is technically an invisible 'it'. With these types of feeling verbs, the verb is always locked in the third-person singular form. For example, 'you are nervous' would be sua jännittää.
Is tosi also a spoken language word?
Yes, tosi is a very common informal and spoken way to say 'really' or 'very'. In formal written Finnish (kirjakieli), this sentence would use todella, making the full formal sentence Minua jännittää todella paljon.