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Tämä huono elokuva ärsyttää minua.

Tämä huono elokuva ärsyttää minua.
This bad movie annoys me.
From Lesson 182:Causative verbs (-ttaa/-ttää)·Finnish

Breakdown of Tämä huono elokuva ärsyttää minua.

tämä
this
minä
I
huono
bad
elokuva
movie
ärsyttää
to annoy, to irritate

Questions & Answers about Tämä huono elokuva ärsyttää minua.

How does the causative suffix -ttää work in the verb ärsyttää?
The verb ärsyttää (to annoy) is formed with the causative suffix -ttää. It comes from the base verb ärtyä, which means 'to become irritated'. The suffix changes the verb so that the subject (the movie) doesn't feel the emotion itself, but rather causes someone else to feel it.
Why is the object minua in the partitive case?
Causative emotion verbs like ärsyttää (to annoy), naurattaa (to make laugh), and pelottaa (to frighten) require their object to be in the partitive case. Because causing a feeling is an ongoing, continuous process rather than a completed physical action, you must use the partitive minua instead of the accusative minut.
Could I change the word order and start the sentence with Minua?
Yes! In Finnish, it is very common to put the person experiencing the emotion at the beginning of the sentence. You will often hear Minua ärsyttää tämä huono elokuva. This puts the focus on your feeling first, while the original sentence focuses on the movie as the main subject.
Why is Tämä huono elokuva in the basic nominative case?
Even though Finnish has special subject rules for some sentence structures, here Tämä huono elokuva acts as a normal grammatical subject doing the action of annoying. Therefore, the pronoun, adjective, and noun all stay in the basic nominative case.

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