Breakdown of Jännittääkö tää sua?
sä
you (spoken, incl. sun, sua)
tää
this (spoken)
jännittää
to make nervous / to feel nervous
Questions & Answers about Jännittääkö tää sua?
What do the words tää and sua stand for in standard Finnish?
Tää is the spoken form of tämä (this), and sua is the spoken form of sinua (you, in the partitive case). In formal written language, the sentence would be Jännittääkö tämä sinua?
Why is "you" in the partitive case (sua) instead of the basic nominative (sä)?
The verb jännittää is an emotion verb. When someone or something causes an emotion in a person, the person experiencing the feeling is the grammatical object and must be in the partitive case.
How exactly does the verb jännittää work here? Does it mean "to be nervous" or "to make nervous"?
It can mean both depending on the sentence structure. Here, because we have a subject (tää) acting on an object (sua), it translates as "to make nervous." If you just wanted to say "I am nervous," you would simply say Mua jännittää where you are the object of the feeling and there is no subject.
Why does the sentence start with the verb Jännittääkö?
In Finnish, yes/no questions are formed by adding the question particle -ko or -kö to the word you are asking about, and moving that word to the front of the sentence. Here, the speaker is asking about the action itself, so the verb gets the -kö ending and comes first.
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