Questions & Answers about Minä tykkään siitä.
Literally:
- Minä = I
- tykkään = (I) like (1st person singular present of tykätä)
- siitä = from it / from that
So the literal structure is a bit like “I like from it/that.”
Finnish uses the verb tykätä together with the elative case (jostakin = “from something”) to express “to like something.”
Because of how the verb tykätä works.
- tykätä jostakin = “to like something”
- jostakin is the elative case (“from something”).
The pronoun se (“it/that”) in elative case is siitä:
- nominative: se (it / that)
- genitive: sen (its / of it)
- partitive: sitä
- elative: siitä (“from it / from that”)
Since tykätä always takes its target in the elative, you must say siitä, not se or sen.
So Minä tykkään siitä literally follows the pattern tykätä + elative.