Breakdown of Perjantaina työkaverini tekee lopullisen päätöksen projektista.
minun
my
tehdä
to make
työkaveri
the coworker
perjantaina
on Friday
projekti
the project
lopullinen
final
päätös
the decision
-sta
about
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Questions & Answers about Perjantaina työkaverini tekee lopullisen päätöksen projektista.
What case is Perjantaina in, and what does it indicate?
Perjantaina is in the essive case (suffix -na), used here as a time expression. It corresponds to on Friday in English.
How do you form my coworker in Finnish, and what case is työkaverini?
työkaverini combines työkaveri (“coworker”) with the 1st person singular possessive suffix -ni. It remains in the nominative case because it functions as the subject.
Why is there no separate word for the or a in this sentence?
Finnish doesn’t use articles. Definiteness is conveyed by context and case marking, so you won’t see the or a as separate words.
Why is tekee used here, and how does tehdä päätös translate?
tekee is the 3rd person singular present form of tehdä (“to do/make”). The phrase tehdä päätös literally means to make a decision. You could also use päättää (“to decide”), but tehdä päätös is a common collocation.
Why is lopullinen inflected as lopullisen, and why is päätöksen in the genitive?
Adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. Here, lopullinen (“final”) takes the genitive singular ending -en to match päätös, which also takes the genitive -ksen. Finnish uses the genitive case for complete, definite direct objects, so lopullisen päätöksen means the final decision.
Why is projektista in the -sta case?
The noun following päätös takes the elative case (-sta/-stä) to express about/from something. So päätös projektista means a decision about the project.
Why is there no subject pronoun like hän in front of tekee?
Finnish verb endings encode the subject. tekee already indicates 3rd person singular, so adding hän (“he/she”) is optional and often omitted in neutral statements.
Is the word order fixed, or can you move Perjantaina and projektista?
The word order in Finnish is quite flexible. You could also say:
• Työkaverini tekee perjantaina lopullisen päätöksen projektista.
• Työkaverini tekee lopullisen päätöksen projektista perjantaina.
The core meaning remains the same; moving elements only shifts emphasis.