Breakdown of Meidän täytyy harjoitella jakolaskua yhdessä.
me
we
täytyä
to have to
harjoitella
to practice
yhdessä
together
jakolasku
division
Questions & Answers about Meidän täytyy harjoitella jakolaskua yhdessä.
Why is it meidän (our) instead of me (we)?
The verb täytyy (must) is a necessity verb. In Finnish, necessity verbs require the subject to be in the genitive case. This means 'we must' is expressed as meidän täytyy. Remember that täytyy never conjugates for the person; it always stays in this third-person singular form.
Why is the object jakolaskua in the partitive case here?
The verb harjoitella (to practice) almost always takes a partitive object. This is because practicing is conceptually an ongoing, continuous process without a defined end point or a completed result.
How is the word jakolasku (division) constructed?
It is a compound word made from jako (sharing or division) and lasku (calculation or bill). You will find lasku at the end of other math terms too, such as yhteenlasku (addition) and vähennyslasku (subtraction).
The word yhdessä (together) looks a lot like the number one (yksi). Is that a coincidence?
Not at all! Yhdessä is literally the inessive case (the 'in' or 'inside' case) of the number yksi. So, when Finns do something together, they are quite literally doing it 'in one'.
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