Breakdown of Pidän puheen ja kiitän teitä tuestanne.
ja
and
te
you (plural/formal)
kiittää
to thank
pitää
to hold / take (a break)
puhe
speech
tuki
support
Questions & Answers about Pidän puheen ja kiitän teitä tuestanne.
Why is "for your support" translated using the -sta ending in tuestanne?
The verb kiittää (to thank) requires the thing you are thanking someone for to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). The base word tuki (support) takes the elative ending to become tuesta, and then the possessive suffix -nne (your) is added at the end.
Why is the word for "you" in the partitive case (teitä) here?
The verb kiittää requires the person being thanked to be in the partitive case. Since the speaker is addressing multiple people or being formal, the pronoun te (you) becomes teitä.
Why is the object puheen in the genitive-looking accusative case, and how does that relate to the future tense?
Finnish usually expresses the future by showing that an action will be entirely completed. By putting the object puhe (speech) in the total object case (puheen), it implies "I will give a whole speech," which changes the English translation to "I will give" instead of "I am giving".
What is the dictionary form of tuestanne, and why did it change so much?
The dictionary form is tuki (support). When you add an ending that closes the final syllable, the consonant k disappears due to consonant gradation, leaving the stem tue-. Then you add the elative ending -sta and the possessive suffix -nne.
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