fina
English
Alternative forms
- see fixing to
Contraction
fina
- African American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
- 2008, Jodie Miller, quoting Lisa, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:
- I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
- 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:
- "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
- 2013, Jody Miller, quoting Shauntell, “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:
- Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
- 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:
- "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"
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References
- fina', The Rice University Neologisms Database
Asturian
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
- IPA(key): /ˈfina/
- Hyphenation: fin‧a
- Rhymes: -ina
Galician
Novial
Antonyms
- komensa
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfinɑ/
Noun
fina m
- woodpecker
- Finena tungan habbaþ ēare on þām ende, mid þām hīe hlosniaþ ċeorfdēora tō etanne.
- Woodpeckers' tongues have an ear at the end, with which they listen for insects to eat.
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfi.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: fi‧na
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfina/
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