puhekieltä The possessive suffix for 2nd person plural, used when addressing many persons or one person in a polite or formal manner. The word (m) is normally required only in questions where the main focus is in the term defined by teidän, and it must not be used in front of participles or infinitives in w:Participial phrase|participial phrases. In the examples below teidän is in brackets where its use is optional.
Used to indicate possession. The comitative case of a noun requires a possessive suffix, and the genitive of personal pronoun is normally not used with it.
(Teidän) kirjanne kertoo talvisodasta.
Your book is about the Winter War.
Onko tämä Teidän kirjanne?
Is this Your book?
Onko (Teidän) kirjanne mielenkiintoinen?
Is Your book interesting?
Kävelitte kirjoinenne ovesta ulos.
You walked out of the door with your book (or books).
Appended to a genitive-requiring :Category:Finnish postpositions|postposition, when its main word is te.
(teidän) edessänne = in front of you
(teidän) takananne = behind you
Appended in the participle in participial phrase phrases when the main clause and the participial phrase have the same subject "you".
Sanoitte tehdä tekevänne (teidän) läksyjänne.
You said you were doing your homework. (similar to the Latin structure accusativus cum infinitivo, e.g. "seLatin se dicere dicit facere")
Väitätte tehnyt tehneenne (teidän) läksyjänne.
You claim to have been doing your homework.
tehdä Tehdessänne (teidän) läksyjänne kuulitte laukauksen ulkoa.
While doing your homework, you heard a shot from outside.
