-si

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: -si
• IPA^(key): /-si/. In Finnish the stress is always on the first syllable, so no emphasis on this.

Suffix

-si

1. (possessive) suffix used with or without sinun (the genitive of the personal pronoun sinä), corresponds to the English possessive pronoun your (addressing one person; in archaic English: thy):

   • (sinun) kirjasi = your book

2. (possessive) appended to a genitive-requiring postposition that is after or without sinun (the genitive of the personal pronoun sinä), you (addressing one person; in archaic English: thee):

   • (sinun) edessäsi = in front of you
   • (sinun) takanasi = behind you

3. (possessive) used in a participle structure replacing an "että" clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "you" (addressing one person); appended to the active present participle in genitive singular when the action is concurrent with the main clause:

   • Sanoit tekeväsi läksyjäsi.
     • You said that you were doing your homework. (similar to the Latin structure accusativus cum infinitivo, e.g. "se dicit facere")

4. (possessive) used in a participle structure replacing an "että" clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "you" (addressing one person); appended to the active past participle in genitive singular when the said/alleged (etc.) action antedates the main clause:

   • Väitit tehneesi läksyjäsi.
     • You claimed to have been doing your homework.

5. (possessive) used in a shortened sentence expressing concurrent actions when the clauses have the same subject "you" (addressing one person), appended to the inessive of the active second infinitive:

   • Tehdessäsi läksyjäsi (sinä) kuulit laukauksen ulkoa.
     • (While) doing your homework, you heard a shot from outside.

6. (possessive) used in a shortened sentence expressing subsequent actions when the clauses have the same subject "you" (addressing one person), appended to the partitive of the passive past participle singular:

   • Tehtyäsi läksysi (sinä) kuulit laukauksen ulkoa.
     • (After) having done / After doing your homework, you heard a shot from outside.

7. (possessive) used in a final shortened sentence expressing "in order to do" when the clauses have the same subject "you" (addressing one person), appended to the long first infinitive:

   • Tehdäksesi läksysi hyvin (sinä) menit hiljaiseen huoneeseen.
     • (In order) to do your homework well, you went into a quiet room.

8. (possessive) Used in some adverbs, when the clause has the subject "you" (addressing one person).

   • Olit hyvin pahoillasi siitä.
     • You were very sorry about it.

9. (possessive) Always appended to a noun in the comitative case when the clause has the subject "you" (addressing one person).

   • Kävelit kirjoinesi ovesta ulos.
     • You walked with your books out the door.

See also

• -ni
• -nsa / -nsä
• -mme
• -nne

Anagrams

• -is

Affix

-si (v-v^?, additive^?)

1. Synonym of -i

Etymology

-s (“adjective-forming suffix”) + -i (“adjective-forming suffix”)^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Suffix

-si

1. (adjective-forming suffix) Added to a noun to form an adjective expressing "belonging somewhere, originating from, coming from".

   falu (“village”) → falusi (“rural”)

2. (diminutive suffix) Added to a shortened noun to form a new diminutive noun.

   jogosítvány (“driver's license”) → jogsi (“driver's license”)

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si/, [s̪i]

Pronoun

-si

1. enclitic form of si; appended to present active infinitive verb forms to derive reflexive forms

   dare (“to give”) → darsi (“to give oneself; to devote”)

   vendere (“to sell”) → vendersi (“to sell oneself; to prostitute”)

   servire (“to serve”) → servirsi (“to serve oneself; to make use of”)

Suffix

-si

1. nominative masculine plural of -sus
2. genitive masculine singular of -sus
3. genitive neuter singular of -sus
4. vocative masculine plural of -sus

Suffix

-si

1. her (emphatic)
2. you (plural; emphatic)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16^d8

     Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.

     I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.

Alternative forms

• -s (after vowels)
• -shi

Suffix

-si

1. Evidential suffix, second-hand information. Indicates that the speaker has not directly experienced the information at hand; hearsay

   Chay llaqta sumaqsi.

   (I hear that) that town is pretty.

   Parachkansi.

   (I heard that) it is raining.

   Anchapsi waqachinki wamrayta.

   (They say that) you make my child cry excessively.

Suffix

-si

1. Third person singular possessive suffix. Used after a noun ending in a vowel. It has the same meaning as uning (“its”) placed before a noun.

   Bu ruchkasi.

   This is its ball pen.