Questions & Answers about Pidän eniten niistä.
What does Pidän mean here, and where is the subject “I”?
Pidän is the 1st person singular form of the verb pitää in the present tense.
- pitää (jostakin) = to like (something)
- pidän = I like
In Finnish, personal pronouns (like minä = I) are often dropped, because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.
- Minä pidän. = I like.
- Pidän. = I like. (subject understood from the verb ending)
So in Pidän eniten niistä, the subject “I” is contained inside pidän.
Why is it niistä and not ne or niitä?