Breakdown of Enemmistö johtokunnasta on samaa mieltä äänestyksen jälkeen.
olla
to be
jälkeen
after
samaa mieltä
in agreement, of the same opinion
enemmistö
majority
Questions & Answers about Enemmistö johtokunnasta on samaa mieltä äänestyksen jälkeen.
Why is johtokunnasta in the elative case rather than the genitive case?
In Finnish, when you talk about a proportion or subset of a specific group, that group is put in the elative case (-sta or -stä). So enemmistö johtokunnasta translates literally to "the majority out of the board of directors". You will see this same pattern with other quantifiers, such as osa johtokunnasta (a part of the board).
Since enemmistö refers to multiple people, why is the verb singular (on) instead of plural (ovat)?
Words like enemmistö (majority), osa (part), and ryhmä (group) are grammatically singular collective nouns. In standard Finnish grammar, a singular subject always takes a singular verb, even if it describes a group of people.
How does samaa mieltä mean "agrees", and why is it in the partitive case?
The idiom olla samaa mieltä literally translates to "to be of the same mind". The words sama (same) and mieli (mind) are in the partitive case because you are expressing an abstract, uncountable state of being rather than a complete physical object.
Why does the word for vote (äänestys) become äänestyksen here?