Breakdown of Etätyö johtaa siihen, että olen yksin.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
yksin
alone
että
that (conjunction)
etätyö
remote work
johtaa
to lead (to)
Questions & Answers about Etätyö johtaa siihen, että olen yksin.
Why do we need the word "siihen" before "että"?
The verb johtaa (to lead) requires its target to be in the illative case (the "into" case). Because you cannot attach an että (that) clause directly to a case-demanding verb, you must use the pronoun se (it) as a placeholder. Here, se becomes siihen. The literal translation is: Remote work leads to it, that I am alone.
How does this sentence relate to the lesson's topic, "joten"?
Both express a cause and a consequence. Instead of saying "Remote work leads to my being alone," you could use joten (so/therefore) to frame it differently: Teen etätyötä, joten olen yksin (I do remote work, so I am alone). Using johtaa siihen, että is simply another way to link a cause to its effect.
What is the prefix used in "etätyö"?
The word is a compound of etä- (distance, remote) and työ (work). The prefix etä- is extremely common in modern Finnish, appearing in everyday words like etäopiskelu (distance learning) and etäkokous (remote meeting).
Could I include "minä" and say "että minä olen yksin"?
Yes, you could, but it is completely optional. In Finnish, first and second-person pronouns (minä, sinä, me, te) can usually be dropped because the verb ending (like the -n in olen) already makes it perfectly clear who the subject is.
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