finna

• see fixing to

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪn(n)ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪnə

finna

1. African American Vernacular and Southern US form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
   • 1999, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, →ISBN:

     Aw, dude, you finna get yo' ass whooped, mufucka.

   • 2012, Cam Rascoe, Restless for Retribution: A Series of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 121:

     I ain't talkin' about what you did homie, I'm talkin' about what's finna happen.

   I'm finna go to the store.

• gonna; going to

• Finan

finna f (genitive singular finnu, plural finnur)

1. (chess) pawn
2. small woman

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

finna (third person singular past indicative fann, third person plural past indicative funnu, supine funnið)

1. to find
2. to meet

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪnːa

  Homophones: Finna

finna (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fann, third-person plural past indicative fundu, supine fundið)

1. (with accusative) to find ^syn.
   • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson

     Krummi krunkar úti,

     kallar á nafna sinn:

     „Ég fann höfuð af hrúti

     hrygg og gæruskinn.“

     Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,

     krummi nafni minn.

     “The raven croaks outside,

     calling his namesake:

     ‘I found the head of a ram,

     backbone and sheepskin.’

     Come now and peck with me,

     Raven, my namesake.”

   Ég fann þig!

   I found you!

2. (with accusative) to meet ^syn.
3. (with accusative) to sense, to feel something ^syn.

• (find ^def.): uppgötva
• (meet ^def.): hitta
• (sense ^def.): skynja

• nafni

• finne

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”). Cognates include Danish finde, Swedish finna, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (finþan), German finden, Dutch vinden, and English find.

• IPA^(key): /²fɪnːɑ/ (example of pronunciation)

finna (present tense finn, past tense fann, past participle funne, passive infinitive finnast, present participle finnande, imperative finn)

1. to find

• “finna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”). Cognate with Old English findan, Old Frisian finda, Old Saxon findan, Old Dutch findan, Old High German findan, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (finþan).

finna (singular past indicative fann, plural past indicative fundu, past participle fundinn)

1. to find

• finna in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną.

finna

1. to find
2. to notice
3. to deem, consider

• Swedish: finna

From Old Swedish finna, from Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnˌa/

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finna (present finner, preterite fann, supine funnit, imperative finn)

1. (slightly formal or non-slang) to find, to locate, to discover ^syn.

   Var kan man finna en kopp kaffe här i närheten?

   Where can you find a cup of coffee near here?

2. (formal) to have come to the conclusion, or opinion, that..

   Jag finner det mycket märkligt att ingen kan ta på sig ansvaret för det inträffade!

   I consider it quite remarkable that nobody can take responsibility for what has happened!

• (find ^def.): hitta