kanssa
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from kansa (“people”), from one or more of the following:
- reduced from of kansassa, the inessive singular form of kansa[1][2]
- from an old essive/locative (kanssa < *kans-sa < *kans-na),[2]
- from the nominative kansa through apocope to kans ~ kanss, to which the vowel was later readded in the standard language (to kanssa).[2]
Compare Estonian kaasa, ka, Livonian ka, Võro kah, Votic kaaz. While these are all related, it is possible that some of these are from slightly different forms.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɑnsːɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝ns̠ːɑ̝]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɑnsːɑ
- Syllabification(key): kans‧sa
- Hyphenation(key): kans‧sa
Postposition
[edit]kanssa [with genitive and/or possessive form]
- with (in the company of; alongside, close to; near to)
- Syön Timon kanssa.
- I eat with Timo.
- Tuletko syömään (meidän) kanssamme?
- Will you come and eat with us?
- Menemme ostoksille mummoni kanssa.
- We are going shopping with my grandma.
- with (in support of)
Inflection
[edit]| Personal/possessive forms of kanssa | ||
|---|---|---|
| no possessor | kanssa | |
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | kanssani | kanssamme |
| 2nd person | kanssasi | kanssanne |
| 3rd person | kanssaan kanssansa | |
Adverb
[edit]kanssa
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
References
[edit]- ^ Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “kanssa”, 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 2 July 2023