Learn Finnish: Etätyö on joskus vaikeaa, joten nauhoitamme tärkeät kokoukset. - Remote work is sometimes difficult, so we record the important meetings.

Etätyö on joskus vaikeaa, joten nauhoitamme tärkeät kokoukset.

Remote work is sometimes difficult, so we record the important meetings.

Breakdown of Etätyö on joskus vaikeaa, joten nauhoitamme tärkeät kokoukset.

Questions & Answers about Etätyö on joskus vaikeaa, joten nauhoitamme tärkeät kokoukset.

How is 'joten' different from 'siksi' in this sentence?

Joten acts as a relative conjunction meaning 'so' or 'and as a result', linking a consequence directly to the previous clause. You could use siksi (therefore / for that reason) to express a similar idea, but it often starts a new independent sentence or is paired with koska (because). Joten smoothly connects the two thoughts into one flow: [Cause], joten [Effect].

Why is 'vaikeaa' in the partitive case here instead of the nominative 'vaikea'?

When describing a subject with an adjective, Finnish uses the partitive case if the subject is an uncountable mass noun or an abstract concept. Etätyö (remote work) is treated as an abstract concept here, so it takes the partitive vaikeaa. If the subject were a specific, countable thing, you would use the nominative (for example: Tämä kokous on vaikea - This meeting is difficult).

Why is the object 'tärkeät kokoukset' in the nominative plural form rather than the partitive?

This is an example of a 'total object'. Because the team is recording the entirety of these specific meetings, the object takes the total form. For plural words, the total object is identical to the nominative plural, ending in -t. If you were only recording parts of the meetings, you would use the partitive plural instead: nauhoitamme tärkeitä kokouksia.

Where does the verb 'nauhoittaa' (we record) come from?