Word
Rakastan perhettäni.
Meaning
I love my family.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
Course
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Questions & Answers about Rakastan perhettäni.
What does Rakastan literally mean?
It means I love. The verb rakastaa – to love – has the root rakasta-, and the ending –n signals 1st person singular present.
Why isn't there a word for I?
In Finnish, person and number are built into the verb ending, so you don’t need a separate pronoun.
What case is perhettäni in, and what does it show?
It’s in the partitive case with a 1st person singular possessive suffix (–ni). The partitive here indicates a non‐total or ongoing relationship (common with verbs of feeling).
Why is it perhettäni and not perheeni or perhe?
Perheeni would be nominative + possessive (my family as a subject), and perhe (nominative) or perheen (genitive) can’t serve as the object of rakastaa. With feeling verbs like rakastaa, the object must be partitive: perhettäni.
How do you form the partitive singular for perhe?
Nouns ending in –e form the partitive singular with • perhe → Then add the possessor suffix: perhettä + → .