minä

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Contents 1 Finnish 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Pronoun 1.2.1.1 Inflection 1.2.1.2 Usage notes 1.2.1.3 Synonyms 1.2.2 See also 1.2.3 Noun 1.2.3.1 Synonyms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Pronoun

[edit] Finnish

[edit] Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧nä
• IPA: ['minæ]

[edit] Etymology 1

• The same as the Finnish personal pronoun me.

[edit] Pronoun

minä (stem minu-, colloquially mu-)

1. (personal) I.

[edit] Inflection

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, minä and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, minut.

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 – –

[edit] 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")

[edit] Synonyms

• ma (archaic, poetic)
• mie (dialectal)
• miä (dialectal)
• mä (dialectal)
• mää (colloquial)

[edit] See also

• sinä
• hän
• me
• te
• he

[edit] Noun

minä (stem min-^*)

1. (psychology, no plural forms) ego.

[edit] Synonyms

• (ego) itse, minuus, ego

[edit] Etymology 2

• Inflected form of mikä.

[edit] Pronoun

minä

1. (interrogative) Essive singular form of mikä.

   • Minä sinä minua oikein pidät?
     • What do you take me for? (when meaning "take sb for sth", pitää requires essive case)

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.