No. 547 in Finnish
työntekijät
"Työntekijät" means "employees" in English.
In a sentence
Työntekijät lähtivät toimistolta kello viiden aikaan.
The employees left the office around five o'clock.
Here, 'työntekijät' is used as the subject of the sentence to denote a group of people who work, specifically those who left the office.
Yrityksemme työntekijät ovat erittäin taitavia.
The employees of our company are highly skilled.
In this sentence, 'työntekijät' refers to a subset of people associated with the company, highlighting their qualities.
Palkkasimme uusia työntekijöitä projektin toteuttamiseksi.
We hired new employees to execute the project.
Here, 'työntekijöitä' is the partitive plural form, showing that the action 'hired' applies to an unspecified amount of workers.
Työntekijät istuvat tauolla kahvilassa.
The employees are sitting on a break in the café.
Here, 'työntekijät' serves as the subject of the sentence and is in the nominative case, denoting the group of employees performing the action.
Yritys palkkasi uusia työntekijöitä.
The company hired new employees.
In this sentence, 'työntekijöitä' is in the partitive plural form, indicating an undefined number of employees being hired.
Meidän työntekijämme ovat erittäin ammattitaitoisia.
Our employees are very professional.
The word 'työntekijämme' includes 'työntekijät' with a possessive suffix '-mme' indicating that the employees belong to 'us.'
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