Word
Tietosuoja on todella tärkeää, sillä emme halua menettää asiakkaita.
Meaning
Data protection is really important, for we don't want to lose customers.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tietosuoja on todella tärkeää, sillä emme halua menettää asiakkaita.
olla
to be
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
haluta
to want
asiakas
the customer
Questions & Answers about Tietosuoja on todella tärkeää, sillä emme halua menettää asiakkaita.
Since the current lesson is about fused negative conjunctions, can we fuse sillä and emme here?
No. Fused negative verbs only happen with specific subordinating conjunctions like että (ettemme), jotta (jottemme), and jos (ellemme). The word sillä is a coordinating conjunction, so it always stays separate from the negative verb: sillä emme.
Why is tärkeää in the partitive case rather than the nominative tärkeä?
Here, tietosuoja (data protection) is treated as an abstract concept. When a sentence describes an abstract or uncountable mass noun, the describing adjective takes the partitive case to express a general state.
Is asiakkaita in the partitive plural specifically because the sentence is negative?
Exactly! The negative phrase emme halua menettää (we do not want to lose) forces the object into the partitive case. If the action were positive and completed, like wanting to get all the customers, the object would be nominative-accusative: haluamme saada asiakkaat.
Could I use koska instead of sillä to mean 'because'?