Breakdown of Perustelu puuttuu päätöksestä.
Questions & Answers about Perustelu puuttuu päätöksestä.
The subject is perustelu.
In Finnish, with the verb puuttua (to be missing / to be absent), the thing that is missing is usually the grammatical subject.
So in:
Perustelu puuttuu päätöksestä.
- perustelu = the missing thing → subject
- puuttuu = is missing
- päätöksestä = from the decision
This is different from English, where learners may first expect something like The decision lacks a justification. Finnish expresses it more like A justification is missing from the decision.
Because puuttua often takes the place or whole from which something is missing in the elative case (-sta / -stä), which often means out of / from.
So:
- päätös = decision
- päätöksestä = from the decision
In this sentence, the idea is:
A justification is missing from the decision.
That is why Finnish uses päätöksestä, not the basic form päätös.