mikä
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *mi + -kä (*mikä), from Proto-Uralic *mi. Cognate with Estonian mis, Veps mi, Võro miä, Hungarian mi.
Pronoun
mikä (stem mi-)
Usage notes
- (relative) Mikä is used to refer to a whole sentence (1), a superlative or a noun modified by a superlative (2) or a pronoun not referring to a person (3):
- (1) Kaikki menikin lopulta hyvin, mikä oli suuri helpotus.
- Ultimately, everything went well which was a great relief.
- (2) Se on parasta, mitä minulle on koskaan tapahtunut.
- It/That is the best that has ever happened to me.
- (2) Se on paras elokuva, minkä olen koskaan nähnyt.
- It/That is the best film that I have ever seen.
- (3) Hän todisti sen, mikä oli todistettavissa.
- He proved what was provable.
- (3) Hän todisti kaiken, mikä oli todistettavissa.
- He proved everything that was provable.
Inflection
- Irregular. Some cases are never used.
Declension of mikä
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Synonyms
- (relative): mi (archaic, poetic)
Derived terms
- helppoa kuin mikä
- millainen
- minkälainen
Ingrian
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