Breakdown of Pomo on väsynyt, joten minä teen päätöksen pomon puolesta.
olla
to be
minä
I
väsynyt
tired
tehdä
to do
pomo
boss
päätös
decision
joten
so, therefore
puolesta
on behalf of, for
Questions & Answers about Pomo on väsynyt, joten minä teen päätöksen pomon puolesta.
Why is pomon in the genitive case here?
The word puolesta (on behalf of) is a postposition. In Finnish, postpositions like puolesta and sijasta (instead of) almost always require the noun immediately preceding them to take the genitive case. Because of this rule, the nominative pomo becomes pomon.
If I wanted to avoid repeating the word boss and instead say on his behalf, how would I change pomon puolesta?
You would say hänen puolestaan. When a postposition is used with a personal pronoun like hänen, you must also attach the corresponding possessive suffix to the end of the postposition itself. In this case, the third-person suffix -an is added to puolesta.
Why is the object päätöksen instead of the partitive form päätöstä?
Using the total object päätöksen (which takes the genitive form here) implies that the action of making the decision is complete, final, and whole. If you used the partitive päätöstä, it would sound like an incomplete or ongoing process, meaning you are currently in the middle of thinking about or making a decision.
Could I use niin instead of joten to mean so in this sentence?
No, joten is the correct conjunction here because it links two clauses where the second is a direct result of the first, acting like therefore or as a result. Niin translates to so when used as an adverb of degree (like niin väsynyt meaning so tired) or as the then part of an if... then structure (jos... niin).
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