Teillä

Teillä is the adessive form of the Finnish second-person plural pronoun te, meaning you (plural). It literally conveys “on you” and is used in constructions that express possession or the existence of something belonging to you. The corresponding singular form is sinulla (you have).

In practice, teillä is most commonly seen with the verb olla (to be) in the present tense to express possession: teillä on X. The structure translates to “you have X.” For example: Teillä on rahaa. (You have money.) Teillä on aikaa. (You have time.) This construction is widely used in everyday Finnish and does not require a separate subject in many sentences—the thing that is possessed appears after on.

Morphology and usage notes: teillä is formed from te (you plural) plus the adessive suffix -llä, which marks location or possession in this grammatical context. The phrase teillä on is a fixed pattern and a standard way to state what someone or a group possesses. The corresponding forms for other persons are minä (minulla), sinä (sinulla), and niin on te, but only teillä is used for the second-person plural.

Related forms include teiltä (elative) meaning “from you,” used when something comes from someone, and teidän is the possessive determiner meaning “your” for nouns (your car = teidän auto). Teillä is a functionally ordinary, neutral part of Finnish grammar, essential for expressing ownership to a group.