Breakdown of Olemme kiitollisia jokaisesta merkittävästä panoksesta.
olla
to be
kiitollinen
grateful
jokainen
every / each (declinable)
merkittävä
significant
panos
contribution / effort (input, stake)
Questions & Answers about Olemme kiitollisia jokaisesta merkittävästä panoksesta.
Why does jokainen change to jokaisesta here?
The pronoun jokainen (every/each) changes its ending to the stem jokaise- before adding case endings. Here it takes the elative ending -sta. Just like regular adjectives, jokainen must agree with the noun it modifies, which is why jokaisesta, merkittävästä, and panoksesta are all in the exact same case.
Why do we use the elative case (-sta) to mean "for"?
In Finnish, certain words demand a specific case (known as government or 'reaktio'). The adjective kiitollinen (grateful) requires the thing you are grateful for to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). That is why the entire phrase "every significant contribution" has to be in the elative.
Why is "grateful" written as kiitollisia instead of kiitolliset?
When an adjective describes a plural subject after the verb "to be" (here: olemme), it takes either the nominative plural (-t) or partitive plural (-a/-ä/-ta/-tä). For human emotions and states of being, Finnish typically uses the partitive plural. Therefore, the singular kiitollinen becomes the partitive plural kiitollisia.
What is the dictionary form of panoksesta?
The dictionary form (nominative) is panos (contribution or input). Nouns that end in -os or -ös change their final -s to -kse- before case endings are attached. This makes the stem panokse-, to which we add the -sta ending.
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