fina

See also: FINA, finá, and fină

English

Alternative forms

• see fixing to

Contraction

fina

1. African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
   • 2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:

     I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.

   • 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:

     "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."

   • 2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:

     Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.

   • 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:

     "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"

References

• fina', The Rice University Neologisms Database

Anagrams

• Fain, an if, fain, naif, naïf

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fina

1. third-person singular present indicative of finar
2. second-person singular imperative of finar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfi.na]

Adjective

fina

1. feminine of fi

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Esperanto

Etymology

From fino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈfina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: fin‧a

Adjective

fina (accusative singular finan, plural finaj, accusative plural finajn)

1. final

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Galician

Adjective

fina

1. feminine singular of fino

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Italian

Adjective

fina f sg

1. feminine singular of fino

Anagrams

• naïf

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Novial

Verb

1. end

Antonyms

• komensa

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Occitan

Adjective

fina

1. feminine singular of fin

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.nɑ/

Noun

fina m

1. woodpecker

Declension

Declension of fina (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fina	finan
accusative	finan	finan
genitive	finan	finena
dative	finan	finum

Synonyms

• *spiht

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: fi‧na

Adjective

fina

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective fino.

Verb

fina

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfina/ [ˈfi.na]

Adjective

fina f sg

1. feminine singular of fino

Verb

fina

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of finir.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of finir.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of finir.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of finir.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fina

1. (deprecated template usage) inflection of fin:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural