Breakdown of Sinun kannattaa sijoittaa yritykseen, jonka tuotanto on kilpailukykyinen.
olla
to be
sinä
you
joka
who / which (relative pronoun)
yritys
company
kannattaa
to be profitable / to be worth it
sijoittaa
to invest
tuotanto
production
kilpailukykyinen
competitive
Questions & Answers about Sinun kannattaa sijoittaa yritykseen, jonka tuotanto on kilpailukykyinen.
Why is sijoittaa (to invest) followed by the illative case yritykseen?
In Finnish, investing is seen as a directional action, literally putting money into something. Because of this, the verb sijoittaa requires its target to be in the illative case, which is why we use yritykseen instead of a static location case like the inessive.
Why is the pronoun for 'you' in the genitive case (sinun) rather than the nominative (sinä)?
The verb kannattaa (to be worthwhile / to be advisable) belongs to a special group of necessity and recommendation verbs. Just like the verbs täytyy and pitää, it requires the subject of the sentence to be in the genitive case.
Why do we use the relative pronoun jonka here instead of minkä?
Jonka is the genitive form of joka, which refers back to the specific noun immediately before the comma (here, yritykseen). You would use minkä (from mikä) if you were referring back to a whole previous clause, a superlative, or a pronoun. In this sentence, the genitive gives it the meaning 'whose production'.
How does the word kilpailukykyinen break down to mean 'competitive'?
It is a compound word made up of kilpailu (competition) and kyky (ability or capacity), followed by the common adjective-forming suffix -inen. Literally, it describes something that has 'competition ability'.
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