Teidät

Teidät is the second-person plural accusative form of the Finnish personal pronoun te (you). It marks the pronoun as the direct object of a verb or as the object of a preposition. The corresponding nominative form is te (you as the subject), the genitive teidän indicates possession (your), and the partitive teitä marks a less definite or ongoing object.

In ordinary Finnish, teidät is the standard object form when addressing more than one person directly. It commonly appears with transitive verbs such as nähdä (to see), kuulla (to hear), tai tavata (to meet). For example: Näen teidät means I see you (plural). The exact choice between teidät and other object forms depends on aspects of definiteness and verb aspect.

Teitä is the related partitive plural object form, used in contexts that signal an incomplete or nonspecific object, ongoing action, or certain syntactic constructions, and it can appear after negation or with verbs that require a partitive object. The distinction between teidät and teitä is influenced by aspect, definiteness, and the role the object plays in the sentence.

Teidät is used when addressing a group directly as a definite object. Finnish does not separate formal and informal second-person pronouns in the same way as some other languages; te is used for both singular and plural you in typical speech. The possessive form teidän is used to express “your” for plural you.