miestä

In a sentence

• Näin eilen miestä torilla.

  I saw a man at the marketplace yesterday.

  In this sentence, 'miestä' (the partitive form of 'mies') is used as the object of the verb 'näin'.

• Hän auttaa miestä, joka tarvitsee apua.

  He/She is helping a man who needs help.

  Here, 'miestä' (partitive form) is used because the action of 'auttaa' (helps) takes its object in partitive case in Finnish.

• Pöydällä on lasi miestä varten.

  There is a glass on the table for the man.

  'Miestä varten' is an adpositional expression where 'miestä' is in the partitive case, expressing 'for the man'.

• Näen miestä kävelemässä kadulla.

  I see a man walking on the street.

  The word "miestä" is in the partitive singular form, which is used here to express an ongoing, incomplete action (seeing the man).

• Tarvitsen miestä auttamaan minun muuttotöissä.

  I need a man to help me with my moving tasks.

  The word "miestä" is in the partitive because the verb "tarvitsen" (I need) requires its object to be in the partitive case to express the concept of needing 'some amount' of the entity.

• Pelkään miestä, joka huutaa kovaa.

  I am afraid of the man who is shouting loudly.

  Here, "miestä" is used in the partitive singular form to match the verb "pelkään" (I am afraid), which governs that its object takes the partitive case due to the emotional state expressed.