minä

See also: mina, minae, and minæ

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /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.

Pronoun

minä (stem minu-, colloquially mu-)

  1. (personal) I (1st person singular personal pronoun)
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
noun case singular plural
nominative minä me
genitive minun meidän
partitive minua meitä
accusative minut meidät
inessive minussa meissä
elative minusta meistä
illative minuun meihin
adessive minulla meillä
ablative minulta meiltä
allative minulle meille
essive minuna meinä
translative minuksi meiksi
instructive – –
abessive minutta meittä
comitative – –
Synonyms

Noun

minä

  1. (psychology, no plural forms) ego.
Synonyms

See also

Etymology 2

Pronoun

minä

  1. (interrogative) Essive singular form of mikä.
  2. (interrogative) Essive plural form of mikä.
    • Minä päivinä sinä näit hänet?
      • On what days did you see her? (with essive used in expressions on Monday/Tuesday/etc., mikä is in the same case as päivä)
  3. (indefinite) Essive singular form of mikä.
  4. (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

  1. (personal) I.

Declension

Declension of minä
singular plural
nominative minä myö
genitive minun meijän
partitive minuu meidy
accusative minun meijän
inessive minus meis
elative minuspäi meispäi
illative minuh meih
adessive minul meil
ablative minulpäi meilpäi
allative minule meile
essive minunnu meijänny
translative minukse meikse
instructive – –
abessive minuttah meittäh
comitative minunke meijänke
prolative minuči meiči

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *minä.

Pronoun

minä (genitive minun, partitive mindai)

  1. I

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
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