mikä
Finnish
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. + -kä (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.), from Proto-Uralic *mi. Cognate with Estonian mis, Veps mi, Võro miä, Erzya мезе (meźe), мень (meń), Hungarian mi.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mikä (stem mi-)
Usage notes
- (relative) Mikä is used to refer to a whole sentence (1), a superlative or a noun modified by a superlative (2) or a pronoun not referring to a person (3):
- (1) Kaikki menikin lopulta hyvin, mikä oli suuri helpotus.
- Ultimately, everything went well which was a great relief.
- (2) Se on parasta, mitä minulle on koskaan tapahtunut.
- It/That is the best that has ever happened to me.
- (2) Se on paras elokuva, minkä (~jonka) olen koskaan nähnyt.
- It/That is the best film that I have ever seen.
- (3) Hän todisti sen, mikä oli todistettavissa.
- He proved what was provable.
- (3) Hän todisti kaiken, mikä oli todistettavissa.
- He proved everything that was provable.
Determiner
mikä
Inflection
- Irregular. Some cases are never used.
Declension of mikä
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Synonyms
- (relative): mi (archaic, poetic)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Further reading
- “mikä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–
Ingrian
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., from Proto-Uralic *mi. Cognates include Estonian mis and Finnish mikä.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Soikkola" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmikæ/
- Hyphenation: mi‧kä
Pronoun
mikä
- (interrogative) what?
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 42:
- Mikä ono, arvatkaa?
- What is it, guess?
- (indefinite) whatever
- (relative) which, that, what
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 52:
- Möö määmmä sitä teetä, minen näytti meille Lenin.
- We follow this way, which Lenin showed us.
Declension
Declension of mikä | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mikä | mit |
genitive | minen | |
partitive | mitä | |
illative | mihe | |
inessive | mis | |
elative | mist | |
allative | mille | |
adessive | mil | |
ablative | milt | |
translative | miks | |
essive | minennä | |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) |
Derived terms
References
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 100
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 309
- Template:R:izh:Chernyavskij:2005
- Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[3], →ISBN, page 73
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ikæ/2 syllables
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