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Mina
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Mina
MI'NA
,Noun.
Definition 2024
minä
minä
Finnish
Pronoun
minä (stem minu-, colloquially mu-)
- (personal) I (1st person singular personal pronoun)
Inflection
- Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't 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 wasn't a personal pronoun.
| Declension of minä
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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")
Synonyms
- ma (archaic, poetic)
- mie (dialectal)
- miä (dialectal)
- mä (meitsier, dialectal)
- mää (dialectal)
- mnää (dialectal)
- meikä
- meikäläinen (non-standard usage, rare)
- meitsi
See also
Noun
minä
- (psychology, no plural forms) ego.
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Pronoun
minä
- (interrogative) Essive singular form of mikä.
- (interrogative) Essive plural form of mikä.
- (indefinite) Essive singular form of mikä.
- (indefinite) Essive plural form of mikä.
Anagrams
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä. Contrast Northern and Southern Karelian mie.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mi‧nä
- IPA(key): [ˈminæ]
Pronoun
minä
- (personal) I.
Declension
Declension of minä
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Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *minä.
Pronoun
minä (genitive minun, partitive mindai)
Inflection
| Inflection of minä | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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