Questions & Answers about Muutit tottumuksiasi.
Where is the word for 'your' (sinun) in this sentence?
In Finnish, 1st and 2nd person possessive pronouns like sinun can usually be dropped. The possessive suffix -si at the end of tottumuksiasi already tells us the habits belong to 'you', making the separate pronoun unnecessary.
Is it also normal to drop the subject pronoun sinä ('you') here?
Yes! Just like with the possessive suffix, you can drop 1st and 2nd person subject pronouns. Because the verb muutit ends in -t, it is already completely clear that 'you' did the changing.
How does the base word tottumus (habit) build up to tottumuksiasi?
Nouns ending in -us usually change to an -ukse- stem. To make it a plural partitive object, we add the plural marker -i- and the partitive ending -a, giving us tottumuksia. Finally, we attach the possessive suffix -si.
Why is the object in the partitive case (tottumuksia) rather than a total object?
Using the partitive plural here implies that you changed some of your habits, or that the process of changing was open-ended. If you had completely changed a specific, fixed set of habits, you would use the total object form (Muutit tottumuksesi).
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