tohkeissaan

Finnish

Etymology

Inessive plural of *tohke- with a possessive suffix, of sound-symbolic origin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtohkei̯sːɑːn/, [ˈt̪o̞xk̟e̞i̯s̠ːɑ̝ːn]
• Rhymes: -ohkeisːɑːn
• Syllabification^(key): toh‧keis‧saan

Adverb

tohkeissaan

1. enthusiastic, enthusiastically, excited, excitedly, (colloquially) jazzed up (about = elative)

   Olin siitä aivan tohkeissani.

   I was so excited about it.

   "Pitäkää kiinni!", hän huusi tohkeissaan.

   "Hang on!", he shouted excitedly.

Inflection

Personal/possessive forms of tohkeissaan
no possessor	—
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tohkeissani	tohkeissamme
2nd person	tohkeissasi	tohkeissanne
3rd person	tohkeissaan tohkeissansa

Synonyms

• innoissaan, poissa tolaltaan

Further reading

• “tohkeissaan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03