Meidät

Meidät is the accusative plural form of the Finnish personal pronoun me (we). It functions as the direct object in a sentence or as the object of a transitive verb, for example in clauses like Hän näki meidät, meaning He saw us. The form is used when the action is directed at the group including the speaker and the addressee.

In Finnish, there is also the partitive plural form meitä, which is used in different grammatical contexts, often signaling an indefinite quantity or an incomplete action. For instance, Meitä on täällä monta translates to There are several of us here. The distinction between meidät and meitä helps convey whether the group is treated as a definite object (meidät) or as a partitive/indefinite quantity (meitä).

Common usage examples include:

- Hän näki meidät. (He saw us.)

- Meidät on kutsuttu tilaisuuteen. (We have been invited to the event.)

- Meidät on valittu johtoryhmään. (We have been chosen for the board of directors.)

Meidät is standard in both conversational and formal Finnish. It appears most often in sentences where the group is the recipient of an action or the focus of a passive construction, rather than as a subject. Understanding the contrast with meitä helps clarify sentence meaning, particularly in contexts involving finite versus non-finite actions or defined versus indefinite group references.