Breakdown of Maahanmuuttaja luottaa siihen, että hän saa työluvan.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
hän
he / she
saada
to get
että
that (conjunction)
luottaa
to trust
maahanmuuttaja
immigrant
työlupa
work permit
Questions & Answers about Maahanmuuttaja luottaa siihen, että hän saa työluvan.
Why do we need the word siihen here? Can't we just say luottaa, että?
In Finnish, certain verbs require their object to be in a specific case. The verb luottaa (to trust) requires the illative case, meaning you trust 'into' something. Because an että clause cannot take a case ending itself, Finnish uses a pronoun bridge. We put the pronoun se into the required illative case (siihen) to satisfy the verb, and then attach the että clause.
Is the verb luottaa always followed by the illative case?
Why is the work permit (työlupa) written as työluvan?
It acts as the total object of the verb saa (gets). Because the subordinate clause is a normal affirmative sentence with a subject (hän), the total object takes the genitive-like accusative ending -n. If it were a negative sentence, it would be in the partitive case: ei saa työlupaa.
How is the word maahanmuuttaja (immigrant) formed?
It is a highly literal compound word. It combines maahan (the illative form of maa, meaning 'into the country') and muuttaja (a person who moves, derived from the verb muuttaa). So an immigrant is literally a 'mover into the country'.
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