Word
En voi yhdistää verkkoon, joten olen poissa palaverista.
Meaning
I cannot connect to the network, so I am absent from the meeting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of En voi yhdistää verkkoon, joten olen poissa palaverista.
olla
to be
ei
no / not (negative verb)
poissa
absent
voida
can, to be able to
Questions & Answers about En voi yhdistää verkkoon, joten olen poissa palaverista.
Why is joten used here instead of siksi?
Joten is a relative conjunction that connects two clauses, meaning "so" or "as a result of what was just said". You use it to show that the second part of the sentence is a direct consequence of the first part. Siksi (therefore / for that reason) usually points back to a completely separate sentence or pairs with koska (because).
Do we always need a comma before joten?
Yes. Because joten links two complete clauses that both have their own verbs (voi and olen), Finnish punctuation rules require a comma to separate them.
Why is verkkoon in the illative ("into") case?
The verb yhdistää (to connect) requires the illative case for the destination you are connecting to. In Finnish logic, you connect "into" the network (verkkoon).
Why does palaverista use the elative (-sta) case here?
The adverb poissa means "away" or "absent". When you state what you are absent from, Finnish uses the elative case (-sta / -stä). You are expressing that you are "away out of" the meeting.