mikä

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See also: mika and Mika

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈmikæ/, [ˈmik̟æ]
  • Rhymes: -ikæ
  • Syllabification(key): mi‧kä

Pronoun

mikä (stem mi-)

  1. (interrogative) which, what.
  2. (indefinite) whatever.
  3. (relative) which, that, what.

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

  1. (interrogative) what, which

Inflection

  • Irregular. Some cases are never used.

Synonyms

  • (relative): mi (archaic, poetic)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Further reading


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

  1. (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?
  2. (indefinite) whatever
  3. (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)

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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