Breakdown of Työnantaja edellyttää sitä, että työntekijöillä olisi enemmän vastuuta.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
että
that (conjunction)
vastuu
responsibility
enemmän
more (comparative of paljon)
työntekijä
the employee
työnantaja
the employer
edellyttää
to require
Questions & Answers about Työnantaja edellyttää sitä, että työntekijöillä olisi enemmän vastuuta.
Why is the verb olisi (would be) in the conditional mood here, when the English translation just says "have"?
The main verb edellyttää (requires) is a verb of demanding. In Finnish, when you use a verb of demanding, proposing, or wishing followed by an että clause, the verb in that subordinate clause takes the conditional mood. It expresses that the action is a required state rather than an existing fact.
Why is there a sitä before the että clause?
The verb edellyttää requires its object to be in the partitive case. When the "object" is an entire että clause, Finnish often inserts the partitive pronoun sitä as a placeholder right before the comma. It literally acts as "requires that thing, that..."
Why is it työntekijöillä olisi rather than työntekijät olisivat?
This is the standard Finnish "to have" structure, which uses the adessive case (-lla/-llä) plus the verb olla. To say "the employees have", you say työntekijöillä on (on the employees is). When forced into the conditional mood by the main verb, on becomes olisi.
Why is vastuu (responsibility) in the partitive case (vastuuta)?
The comparative word enemmän (more) acts as a quantifier here. Just like words such as paljon (a lot) or numbers, enemmän requires the uncountable mass noun following it to be in the partitive case.
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