Ystäväsi

Ystäväsi is a Finnish noun phrase meaning “your friend.” It is formed from the base noun ystävä, meaning friend, combined with the second-person possessive suffix -si, which marks that the possession belongs to the person being spoken to.

In use, ystäväsi refers to the friend of the listener and is commonly used in everyday speech and writing. The phrase can appear in various syntactic roles within a sentence, depending on the verb and case requirements, but its core meaning remains the same: a friend belonging to you.

Finnish possessive forms can vary with the person and number of the possessor. For second person singular, -si is used to create ystäväsi. For your plural or formal address, the corresponding form is ystävänne, which expresses “your (plural/formal) friend.” Other related forms include ystäväni (“my friend”) and hänen ystävänsä (“his/her friend”). The overall system is based on attaching possessive suffixes to the possessed noun, with the suffix reflecting who owns the item.

Examples:

- Missä on ystäväsi? (Where is your friend?)

- Ystäväsi on jo saapunut. (Your friend has already arrived.)

Ystäväsi thus functions as a concise, grammatical way to reference someone’s friend in Finnish, with its exact nuance determined by context and accompanying pronouns or determiners.