Yleisön palaute auttaa ohjaajaa.

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Breakdown of Yleisön palaute auttaa ohjaajaa.

• palaute: the feedback
• ohjaaja: the director
• yleisön: the audience's

Questions & Answers about Yleisön palaute auttaa ohjaajaa.

Why is yleisön in this form, and what case is it?

Yleisön is the genitive singular of yleisö (“audience, public”).

The genitive ending is -n, so:

• nominative: yleisö = audience
• genitive: yleisön = audience’s / of the audience

It’s in the genitive because it’s showing possession/association: yleisön palaute = “the audience’s feedback” or “feedback from the audience.”

Why is it yleisön palaute and not yleisö palaute?

In Finnish, when one noun modifies another in a possessive or “of” relationship, the first noun is usually in the genitive:

• yleisö
  • palaute → yleisön palaute (“the audience’s feedback”)
• opettaja
  • kirja → opettajan kirja (“the teacher’s book”)

If you said yleisö palaute with both in the nominative, it would sound ungrammatical or at best very strange, because Finnish doesn’t stack bare nouns in the same way English sometimes can.

What exactly does palaute mean? Is it countable like “a feedback / feedbacks”?

Palaute means “feedback” (comments, responses, evaluation).

Like English “feedback”, it’s typically treated as uncountable: