Meitä

Meitä is the partitive plural form of the Finnish personal pronoun me, meaning "us." It is used when the object of a sentence refers to an indefinite portion of the group, or when the action affects the group in a non-fully-defined way. The partitive form also appears in sentences with negation or in verbs that take a partitive object.

In Finnish grammar, the partitive is commonly used for incomplete or ongoing actions, for indefinite quantities, and in certain existential constructions. A typical usage is in existential clauses that express quantity or presence, such as "Meitä on täällä kolme" (There are three of us here) or "Meitä ei ole paljon" (There aren’t many of us). The corresponding accusative form is meidät, which is used in contexts where the object is definite or fully realized, as in "Hän näki meidät" (He saw us).

Form and related forms: meitä is the standard partitive form; meidät is the accusative form. The genitive form is meidän (our), and other case forms exist for different grammatical functions, such as meissä (in us) and meistä (from us).

Usage notes: Meitä tends to appear in everyday speech in situations involving a subset of a group, ongoing states, or negation. It is a core part of Finnish pronoun use and interacts with verbs that require partitive objects or with negated predicates.

See also: Finnish pronouns, partitive case, pronoun declensions.