Breakdown of Johtokunta nimeää yhden meistä.
me
we
yksi
one
johtokunta
the board of directors
nimetä
to nominate
Questions & Answers about Johtokunta nimeää yhden meistä.
Why does "of us" translate to meistä in this sentence?
In Finnish, when you are talking about a subset or proportion, like "one out of a group", you use the elative case (-sta or -stä). Here, the base pronoun me (we) takes the elative ending to become meistä (out of us / of us).
Why is the word for "one" written as yhden instead of yksi?
The word yksi is the direct object of the verb nimeää. Because the board will nominate one whole person and the action will be fully completed, the object takes the genitive-accusative case, changing yksi to yhden.
How do we get the form nimeää from the dictionary verb nimetä (to name / nominate)?
Nimetä is a Type 4 verb. To get the stem, you drop the -tä and add -ä-, making the stem nimeä-. For the third-person singular (acting as the single entity "board"), you lengthen the final vowel, which gives us nimeää.
What words make up the compound word johtokunta?
It is made up of johto (leadership, management, or direction) and kunta (a body, council, or municipality). Put together, it means "board of directors" or "executive committee".
The English translation says "will nominate", so why is nimeää in the present tense?
Finnish does not have a dedicated future tense, so it uses the present tense to talk about the future. The use of the total object (yhden) strongly hints that this is a completed future action, not an ongoing present one.
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