viime
Finnish
(index v)
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wiŋe-, *wiŋi, same root as in viipyä.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: vii‧me
- IPA(key): /ˈviːme/
Adjective
viime (indeclinable, not compared)
- past, last (most recent, last so far).
- viime vuonna
- in the past year
- last year
- viime kesänä
- last summer
- viime vuonna
- Last, dying (unsuffixed of the adjective viimeinen, synonymous but used especially in literature and idioms).
- viime henkäys
- last breath
- viime hetki
- last moment
- Päivänvalon viime hetkinä huomasin purjeen horisontissa.
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- viime henkäys
Declension
- The two inflected forms of viime are used as adverbs.
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Synonyms
- (last, dying): viimeinen
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