Breakdown of Kukin pelaaja ottaa uuden pelimerkin ja siirtää sen pöydälle.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
ja
and
uusi
new
pöytä
table
Questions & Answers about Kukin pelaaja ottaa uuden pelimerkin ja siirtää sen pöydälle.
Why does this sentence use kukin instead of jokainen for "each"?
Both words mean "each" or "every", but kukin has a distributive feeling. It emphasizes that the players take turns or act individually one by one. You will see kukin very often in rulebooks or game instructions just like this one.
How does kukin interact with the word pelaaja here?
It acts like an adjective describing pelaaja. Because pelaaja is the subject of the sentence and is in the nominative (basic) form, kukin is also in the nominative. If we needed to say "the turn of each player", both words would change to their genitive forms: kunkin pelaajan.
Why do uuden pelimerkin and sen end in -n instead of being in the partitive case?
The verbs ottaa (takes) and siirtää (moves) describe completed actions done to a whole object. Because the sentence is affirmative and the action is complete, the object takes the genitive-looking accusative ending -n.
Why is it pöydälle (onto the table) rather than pöytään?
The allative case ending -lle means "onto" the outer surface of something. Since you place a game token on top of the table rather than inside or attached to it, pöydälle is the natural choice.