Breakdown of Johtaja muistuttaa meitä tietosuojasta, ettemme unohda sitä.
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
me
we
unohtaa
to forget
johtaja
the director
muistuttaa
to remind
ettei
that not (inflects: etten, ettet, ettei...)
tietosuoja
the data protection
Questions & Answers about Johtaja muistuttaa meitä tietosuojasta, ettemme unohda sitä.
How is the word ettemme formed in this sentence?
It is a fusion of the subordinating conjunction että (that) and the first-person plural negative verb emme (we don't). Instead of writing että emme, Finnish commonly fuses them into a single word: ettemme.
The English translation says "so that we don't". Could we use jottemme instead of ettemme?
Yes, absolutely. Jotta strictly means "so that" or "in order to", so jottemme (fusing jotta + emme) is a very precise and formal fit. However, että is frequently used to mean "so that" in everyday Finnish, making ettemme a very natural and common choice here.
Why are the words for "us" and "data protection" in the partitive (meitä) and elative (tietosuojasta) cases?
This is driven by the verb muistuttaa (to remind). This verb demands a specific rection (case pairing): the person being reminded must be in the partitive case (me becomes meitä), and the topic they are reminded about must be in the elative case (-sta/-stä).
Why is the object "it" at the end translated as sitä (partitive) rather than sen (genitive/accusative)?
Because the subordinate clause is negative. Even though the negative verb emme is fused into the conjunction ettemme, it still acts as a negative verb. In Finnish, negative clauses always force their objects into the partitive case (sitä).
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