Breakdown of Mä oon väsynyt, mutta mä ottais mieluummin pizzaa.
olla
to be
minä
I
väsynyt
tired
mutta
but
ottaa
to take
mieluummin
rather
pizza
pizza
Questions & Answers about Mä oon väsynyt, mutta mä ottais mieluummin pizzaa.
Why does it say ottais instead of ottaisin?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), the conditional marker -isi- is often shortened to -is, and the personal ending is dropped. So standard minä ottaisin (I would take) becomes mä ottais. You rely on the pronoun mä to know who is doing the action.
Why is pizzaa in the partitive case here?
Because the speaker is talking about having some pizza rather than one specific, whole pizza. When you talk about taking or consuming an unspecified amount of food, the object takes the partitive case.
Where does the word mieluummin come from?
It is the comparative form of the adverb mielellään (gladly or with pleasure), which originally comes from the word mieli (mind). While mielellään means you gladly do something, mieluummin means you would rather or preferably do it.
Is it okay to mix standard Finnish and spoken Finnish, like saying minä olen in the first half but mä ottais in the second?
It usually sounds unnatural to mix strict written Finnish (kirjakieli) and casual spoken Finnish (puhekieli) in the same sentence. Because the second half uses the heavily colloquial mä ottais, it feels much more natural to start with the colloquial mä oon.
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