Finnish to Galician: being seen and receiving a gift require different second-person reference
Finnish object forms do not all identify a recipient
A Taste of Finnish distinguishes the second-person object forms sinut and sinua. Its En näe sinua example denies seeing the listener, with a partitive object in the negative clause. The listener is the person who would be seen, not the recipient of an unmentioned transfer.
Galician translation therefore needs to recover the role before selecting a short second-person pronoun. A source word identifying you is not sufficient by itself: being seen by someone, receiving something from them and acting as the subject are different relationships involving the same listener. Finnish expresses those relationships through its own pronoun forms and constructions.
Galician te and che distinguish direct from indirect object
The Xunta de Galicia weak-pronoun resource distinguishes te as a second-person direct-object form from che as a second-person indirect-object form. It illustrates te in an account of seeing someone in the street and che in an account of bringing that person a gift. The addressee remains the same kind of referent, but the grammatical job changes.
For the Finnish negative seeing example, using the gift-recipient relationship would not preserve who is perceived. The source negation and partitive marking do not turn perception into giving. The Galician construction must fit the target verb and its actual participant relationship rather than treating che as a general-purpose polite equivalent of every Finnish you form.
Conversely, when Finnish says Toisin sinulle kukkia, I would bring you flowers, the listener receives the flowers, rather than being transported. The source course provides that example among conditional forms. Its sinulle is not the same object relationship as sinua in the seeing example, even though both pronouns refer to the listener.
Keep the transfer and its proposed status intact
The Finnish flower sentence proposes or imagines a bringing event through conditional wording. A Galician recipient pronoun must preserve whom the flowers are for without converting that proposed event into a completed delivery. The correct person relationship cannot compensate for a mistaken assertion that the transfer already happened.
The Xunta resource also separates third-person singular lle from plural lles as indirect-object forms. This reinforces the need to interpret both role and count rather than select a pronoun merely by resemblance. A Finnish singular recipient should not become a group, and a plural recipient should not be reduced to one person while rebuilding the target clause.
For Finnish into Galician, establish whether the listener is the direct participant perceived, the recipient of an item or the person performing the action. Read Finnish case together with the predicate and preserve the event’s polarity and conditional status. Then choose the Galician pronoun appropriate to that construction; te and che encode a role distinction that one undifferentiated translation of you would lose.
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