Breakdown of Haluatko piilottaa todelliset tunteesi?
haluta
to want
todellinen
real
piilottaa
to hide
tunne
the feeling
Questions & Answers about Haluatko piilottaa todelliset tunteesi?
Where is the word for "your" (sinun) in this sentence?
In Finnish, it is very common to drop the genitive pronouns for the first and second person (minun, meidän, sinun, teidän) when you attach a possessive suffix to the noun. Here, the suffix -si on tunteesi already means "your", so the pronoun sinun is simply dropped.
The plural of tunne (feeling) is tunteet. Why is the word here tunteesi and not tunteetsi?
When you add a possessive suffix like -si to a noun in the nominative plural (which usually ends in -t), that plural -t drops out completely. So, tunteet + -si merges to become tunteesi.
If the plural -t disappeared from tunteesi, how can we tell it means plural "feelings" instead of singular "feeling"?
The biggest clue is the adjective! The word todelliset (true) is in the plural form. Adjectives must agree with the noun they modify, but they do not take possessive suffixes themselves. Because of this, the adjective keeps its regular plural -t, revealing that the hidden noun form is also plural.
Why aren't the feelings in the partitive case here?