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mikä

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See also: mika, Mika, mīka, and Míka

Finnish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *mi, from Proto-Uralic *mi. The nominative and genitive singular forms, which would have otherwise been monosyllabic, have been extended with -kä (as with joka and kuka), possibly even in Proto-Finnic (*mikä), as reflected in Ingrian mikä and Voro mikä. Other cognates include Estonian mis, Veps mi, Erzya мезе (meze), мее (meje), Komi-Zyrian мый (myj), Hungarian mi.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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mikä

  1. (interrogative) what, which
    Mikä tuo on?
    What is that?
    Mitä teet?
    What are you doing?
    Minkä annoksen tilasit?
    Which dish did you order?
  2. (relative) which, that, what (see usage notes)

Usage notes

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  • (relative) As a relative pronoun, mikä is used as follows:
  • mikä may behave as an indefinite pronoun with an additional word like ikinä, hyvänsä, tahansa (after mikä), or vaikka (before mikä). Some relative uses may also be indefinite:
    Oli mikä oli. (dismissive nuance)
    Whatever it was.
    (literally, “[It] was what [it] was.”)

Determiner

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mikä

  1. (interrogative) what, which
    Minkä takia teit noin?
    Why did you do that? / What did you do that for?

Inflection

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  • Irregular. Some cases are never used.

Synonyms

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  • (relative): mi (archaic, poetic)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Ingrian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *mikä. Cognates include Estonian mis and Finnish mikä.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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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

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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

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References

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  • 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
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[3], →ISBN, page 73

Votic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *mikä, from Proto-Uralic *mi.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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mikä

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

Determiner

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mikä

  1. synonym of milläin (what kind of, which)

Inflection

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Inflection of mikä
singular plural
nominative mikä migäd
genitive migä
accusative migä
partitive mitä
illative migäse
inessive migäz
elative migässe
allative migäle
migälle
adessive migälle
ablative migälte
translative migässi
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.