Breakdown of Meiän opettaja on muistuttanu meitä.
olla
to be
me
we
opettaja
teacher
meidän
our, ours
muistuttaa
to remind
Questions & Answers about Meiän opettaja on muistuttanu meitä.
Why is the word for "our" written as meiän instead of meidän?
This is a classic example of spoken Finnish (puhekieli). The consonant d is very frequently dropped when it appears between two vowels inside a word, making the standard meidän turn into meiän.
Where did the final -t go in muistuttanu?
In spoken Finnish, it's completely normal to drop the final -t from active past participle endings like -nut or -nyt. The standard written form is muistuttanut, but in everyday speech, you'll almost always hear muistuttanu.
How does the perfect tense ("has reminded") work in spoken Finnish?
It works exactly the same as in the standard written language, just using the spoken word forms! You use the present tense of olla (here, on) alongside the past participle of the main verb. The only difference from the textbook is the dropped -t on muistuttanu.
Why is me (we) in the partitive case (meitä) here?
The verb muistuttaa (to remind) is a partitive verb. This means the person who is being reminded must be put into the partitive case. Because the teacher is reminding us, we use meitä.
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