sä

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sa" and SVO

Finnish

Etymology

From the Proto-Uralic root *te or *tun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsæ/
  • Rhymes: -æ

Pronoun

sä

  1. (personal, colloquial) you, ya (second person singular personal pronoun)
Declension
  • Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases are not used, the table shows an expression which means the same.
  • In addition to the standard set of cases, sä as well as sinä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, sut.
Declension of sä
noun case singular plural
nominative sä –
genitive sun –
partitive sua –
accusative sut –
inessive sussa –
elative susta –
illative suhun –
adessive sulla –
ablative sulta –
allative sulle –
essive suna –
translative suksi / suks –
instructive sun avulla –
abessive ilman sua –
comitative – sun kanssa

Synonyms

Anagrams

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sää.

Noun

sä

  1. weather

Inflection

Inflection of sä
nominative sing. sä
genitive sing. sän
partitive sing. säd
partitive plur. —
singular plural
nominative sä —
accusative sän —
genitive sän —
partitive säd —
essive-instructive sän —
translative säks —
inessive säs —
elative säspäi —
illative ? —
adessive säl —
ablative sälpäi —
allative säle —
abessive säta —
comitative sänke —
prolative sädme —
approximative I sänno —
approximative II sännoks —
egressive sännopäi —
terminative I ? —
terminative II sälesai —
terminative III sässai —
additive I ? —
additive II sälepäi —

Derived terms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “погода”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē, from Proto-Indo-European *swe and Proto-Indo-European *se. Cognate with Old English swā (English so), Old Frisian sa, Old Saxon sō, Dutch zo, Old High German sō (German so), Swedish så, Danish så, Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌰 (swa), Latin si (from an earlier form suad), Oscan 𐌔𐌅𐌀𐌝 (svaí), Umbrian sve, Greek ὡς (hōs) (earlier *ϝος).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɛ], [sʊ], [sœ] (example of pronunciation)

Adverb

sä

  1. so, that
    Ji håll hä jär int sä felt.
    I assume it is not so bad.

Conjunction

sä

  1. used to continue a sentence after a short pause
    Einkä gruta ji att, sä mistä ji.
    The only little bit I had, I lost.
Alternative forms
  • se
  • ʃe (after /r/ and /ɽ/)
  • so
  • sö
Derived terms
  • warasä
  • säddänä
  • sänna
  • säjna

Etymology 2

Pronoun

sä

  1. Alternative form of seg
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