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Finnish often shows possession with a suffix attached to the noun.
- -ni = my
- tytär = daughter
- tyttäreni = my daughter
So the sentence does not need a separate word like my in English, because that meaning is already built into tyttäreni.
Also, tytär is an irregular-looking noun type. Before a possessive suffix, it uses the stem tyttäre-, so you get tyttäreni, not tytärni.
Yes. Minun tyttäreni is also correct and means the same thing.
However, in Finnish, if the possessive suffix is already there, the pronoun minun is often left out:
- tyttäreni = my daughter
- minun tyttäreni = also my daughter, a bit more explicit
So in this sentence, tyttäreni is completely natural.