Breakdown of Tämä on minun kirjoittamani resepti, joka on todella helppo.
tämä
this
olla
to be
minä
I
helppo
easy
kirjoittaa
to write
joka
who / which (relative pronoun)
todella
really (very, intensifier)
resepti
recipe
Questions & Answers about Tämä on minun kirjoittamani resepti, joka on todella helppo.
Why is it kirjoittamani and not just kirjoittama?
When an agent participle (the -ma/-mä form showing who did an action) is used with a personal pronoun like minun, it must take a matching possessive suffix. Since the doer is minun (my), we attach the first-person suffix -ni to kirjoittama to make kirjoittamani.
Could I just use a relative clause like "Tämä on resepti, jonka minä kirjoitin"?
Yes, absolutely! Saying resepti, jonka minä kirjoitin (the recipe that I wrote) is very common and means the exact same thing. The agent participle construction minun kirjoittamani resepti is simply a more compact, slightly more formal way to express it.
Does the participle kirjoittamani change if the word resepti is in a different case?
Yes, it acts exactly like an adjective and must agree with the noun it describes. Here, resepti is in the basic nominative case, so kirjoittamani is too. If you said "I am reading the recipe written by me," both words would take the partitive case: Luen minun kirjoittamaani reseptiä. The possessive suffix -ni is added at the very end, after the partitive -a.
Why does the sentence use joka instead of mikä for "which"?
In Finnish, joka is the correct relative pronoun to use when referring back to a specific preceding noun—in this case, resepti. The pronoun mikä is used when referring back to an entire preceding sentence, a superlative, or a pronoun like "everything".
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