Pidän siitä paljon.

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Breakdown of Pidän siitä paljon.

• pitää: to like
• paljon: a lot
• siitä: for that

Questions & Answers about Pidän siitä paljon.

Why is the verb “pidän” used here, and what does its form tell me?

“Pidän” is the 1st person singular form of the verb pitää in the present tense.

• pitää (in this construction) = to like
• pidä- = the verb stem
• -n = ending for “I” (minä)

So pidän literally means “I like”, and that -n ending makes the separate pronoun minä (“I”) optional.
You could say Minä pidän siitä paljon, but in normal Finnish, you usually just say Pidän siitä paljon.

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Why is it “siitä” and not “sen” or “sitä”?

The verb pitää in the sense “to like” always takes its “object” in the elative case (-sta/-stä), which answers “from where?”. For the pronoun se (“it / that”), the elative form is:

• se (nominative)
• siitä (elative) → “from it”, “of it”

So the pattern is:

• pitää + jostakin (elative) = to like something

Examples:

• Pidän siitä. = I like it.
• Pidän kahvista. (kahvi → kahvista) = I like coffee.
• Pidän musiikista. (musiikki → musiikista) = I like music.

“sen” is the genitive (of it), and “sitä” is the partitive (some of it / it as an object). They are not used with pitää in the “to like” meaning.

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What exactly does “siitä” mean here? Does it literally mean “from it”?