Breakdown of Sähköpostiosoite puuttuu tästä viestistä, joten en voi vastata.
minä
I
tämä
this
voida
to be able to
joten
so
Questions & Answers about Sähköpostiosoite puuttuu tästä viestistä, joten en voi vastata.
Why is sähköpostiosoite (email address) in the basic form (nominative) and not in the partitive or genitive?
With the verb puuttua (to be missing / to be lacking), the “thing that is missing” is typically the grammatical subject, and it usually appears in the nominative:
- Sähköpostiosoite puuttuu… = The email address is missing…
So sähköpostiosoite behaves like the subject of the sentence, not like an object.
What does puuttuu mean here, and how does it work grammatically?
Puuttuu is the 3rd person singular present of puuttua. It commonly means to be missing / to be absent / to be lacking.
A very typical pattern is:
- X puuttuu jostakin = X is missing from something
So in the sentence:
- Sähköpostiosoite puuttuu tästä viestistä = The email address is missing from this message
Why does Finnish say tästä viestistä (literally “from this message”)? Why “from”?