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Jos means if and introduces a conditional clause: Jos nettiin tulee häiriö = If a disturbance occurs in/with the internet. In Finnish it’s very common to place the if-clause first, then a comma, then the main clause.
Finnish normally uses a comma between a subordinate clause and the main clause. So Jos nettiin tulee häiriö, is a complete subordinate clause, and the comma marks the boundary before the main clause begins: en pääse palveluun...
nettiin is the illative form of netti (colloquial for the internet / the net), meaning roughly into the internet / to the net / onto the net. Here it’s idiomatic: nettiin tulee häiriö = a disruption happens in the internet connection/network.
A more formal alternative could be internetiin (illative of internet), but nettiin is very common in everyday Finnish.
Both can exist in different expressions, but tulla + illative is a common pattern: tulla (jonnekin) = to come/appear somewhere.
So nettiin tulee häiriö literally frames the disturbance as “coming/appearing into the net.” netissä on häiriö would instead mean “there is a disturbance in the net” (a state).
tulee is the 3rd person singular of tulla (to come), and häiriö is the subject: literally a disturbance comes/appears. Finnish often uses tulla where English might say there is / there occurs.
With tulla, the “thing that appears” is often in the nominative when it’s viewed as a whole event: tulee häiriö = a disruption occurs.
Partitive (tulee häiriötä) would suggest something more ongoing/uncountable, like there is (some) interference / disruptions happening in a more continuous sense. In everyday speech, nominative is a natural choice here.
Finnish commonly uses the present tense for future or general conditions, especially with jos-clauses. The context makes it conditional/future-like without needing a special future tense.
Finnish negation uses a negative auxiliary verb that carries person/number.
- en = “I do not” (1st person singular negative verb)
- pääse is the connegative form of päästä (“to get / to be able to access/reach”).
So en pääse = I can’t get / I don’t get (access).
After the negative verb (en), the main verb does not take the usual personal ending. Instead it appears in the connegative form:
- affirmative: pääsen = “I get / I can access”
- negative: en pääse = “I don’t get / I can’t access”
palveluun is the illative of palvelu (“service”), meaning into/to the service. With päästä, Finnish typically marks the destination with illative:
päästä palveluun = to get into the service / access the service.
mutta means but and introduces a contrast: even though you can’t access the service when there’s a disruption, the backup still helps. Structurally it links two main-clause ideas:
en pääse palveluun, mutta varmuuskopio auttaa silti.
silti means still / nevertheless / anyway. It highlights that the second statement holds despite the first.
It can move somewhat freely for emphasis, for example:
- ... mutta varmuuskopio auttaa silti. (neutral)
- ... mutta silti varmuuskopio auttaa. (more emphasis on “nevertheless”)
varmuuskopio (“backup”) is singular, so the verb is 3rd person singular: auttaa = “helps.” Finnish present tense is also used for general statements here: the backup helps (in that situation).
varmuuskopio is literally backup copy (varmuus = “security/certainty” + kopio = “copy”). In everyday use it often corresponds to English backup (the saved copy/data), and context decides whether it’s a single backup or the backup solution generally.