meidän
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(deprecated template usage) genitive of me
Pronoun
meidän
- The genitive plural of the personal pronoun me, in most cases (with the possessive suffix -mme appended to the main word owned) translated with the possessive pronoun our; after the verb olla: ours:
- Meidän äitimme on 45 (neljäkymmentäviisi) vuotta vanha.
- Our mother is 45 years old.
- Tämä kirja on meidän.
- This book is ours.
- Used with verbs or verb structures that are used monopersonally such as pitää, täytyä, tulla, olla + passive present participle etc., and require genitive: translated into English we:
- Meidän pitää/täytyy/tulee tehdä / on tehtävä tämä nyt.
- We have to do this now.
Etymology 2
From me with the accusative singular marker -n.
Pronoun
meidän
- (dialectal, dated) (deprecated template usage) accusative of me
- Synonym: meidät