Minusta tuntuu, että tämä on väärin.

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Breakdown of Minusta tuntuu, että tämä on väärin.

• olla: to be
• tämä: this
• tuntua: to feel

Questions & Answers about Minusta tuntuu, että tämä on väärin.

Why is it Minusta and not Minä at the beginning?

Finnish often uses a case-marked pronoun (not the nominative minä) to express the experiencer of a feeling.

• Minä = nominative, “I” as a grammatical subject.
• Minusta = elative case (“from me / out of me”).

With tuntua (“to feel, to seem”), the person who experiences the feeling is regularly in the elative:

• Minusta tuntuu… = “It feels (to me) that…”
  (literally: “From me it feels that…”)
• Sinusta tuntuu… = “It feels (to you) that…”
• Hänestä tuntuu… = “It feels (to him/her) that…”

So Minusta is not the subject; it marks whose feeling it is. The subject of tuntuu is the whole että‑clause that follows.

What exactly does tuntuu mean here, and why not tunnen?

Finnish has two different verbs that both relate to “feel” in English:

• tuntea = “to feel / to know / to be acquainted with” (transitive, takes an object)
  
  • Tunnen sinut. = “I know you.”
  • Tunnen kivun. = “I feel the pain.”
• tuntua = “to feel / to seem / to give the impression” (intransitive, often impersonal)
  
  • Minusta tuntuu, että… = “I feel that… / It seems to me that…”

In Minusta tuntuu, että tämä on väärin, you are not “feeling something with your senses”; you are expressing a subjective impression or opinion. That’s why Finnish uses tuntua, not tuntea.

So:

• tunnen would need a direct object (what do you feel/know?),
• tuntuu introduces the content of what seems true, here via the että‑clause.