minä
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈminæ/, [ˈminæ]
- Hyphenation: mi‧nä
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä. From the same base as the plural pronoun me, the possessive suffixes -ni and -mme and the first-person verb endings -n and -mme.
Usage notes
- Although often omitted in written language (the verb shows both the person and the number), the pronoun is in spoken language practically always used. (cf. the usage of me, "we")
Inflection
- Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms do not exist. Abessive is hardly ever used, use ilman minua and ilman meitä instead.
- In addition to the standard set of cases, minä and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, in this case minut. This form would have been the nominative plural form of the first stem, if the word were not a personal pronoun.
Declension of minä
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Synonyms
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä. Contrast Northern and Southern Karelian mie.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mi‧nä
- IPA(key): [ˈminæ]
Declension
Declension of minä
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Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *minä.
Inflection
Inflection of minä | |||
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nominative sing. | minä | ||
genitive sing. | minun | ||
partitive sing. | mindai | ||
partitive plur. | meid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | minä | mö | |
accusative | minun | mö | |
genitive | minun | meiden | |
partitive | mindai | meid | |
essive-instructive | — | — | |
translative | — | — | |
inessive | minus | meiš | |
elative | minuspäi | meišpäi | |
illative | minuhu | meihe | |
adessive | minai | meil | |
ablative | minaipäi | meilpäi | |
allative | minei | meile | |
abessive | minuta | meita | |
comitative | minunke | meidenke | |
prolative | — | — | |
approximative I | — | — | |
approximative II | — | — | |
egressive | — | — | |
terminative I | — | — | |
terminative II | — | — | |
terminative III | — | — | |
additive I | — | — | |
additive II | — | — |
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “я”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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