Breakdown of Mä ehdottais, että me tilataan pizza.
minä
I
me
we
että
that (conjunction)
tilata
to order
ehdottaa
to suggest
pizza
pizza
Questions & Answers about Mä ehdottais, että me tilataan pizza.
Why is the verb written as ehdottais instead of ehdottaisin?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), the conditional marker -isi- is often shortened to just -is, and the personal ending (like the -n for 'I') is dropped completely. The pronoun mä does the job of telling us who is suggesting. In standard written Finnish, this would be minä ehdottaisin.
If the personal ending is dropped, how do we know who is doing the suggesting?
You have to rely on the pronoun! Because spoken Finnish drops the personal ending in this clipped conditional form, mä ehdottais (I would suggest), sä ehdottais (you would suggest), and se ehdottais (he/she would suggest) all use the exact same verb form.
Why is the passive form tilataan used here to mean 'we order'?
In spoken Finnish, it is almost universal to replace the standard 'we' form (like me tilaamme) with the pronoun me followed by the passive form of the verb (me tilataan).
Why is the object pizza and not pizzan?
This is a very common trap! In standard Finnish, 'we order a pizza' uses the genitive object: me tilaamme pizzan. However, because spoken Finnish uses the passive verb form (tilataan), the object rules for the passive apply. Passive verbs take their objects in the nominative case (the basic dictionary form), so the object stays as pizza.
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