uuvuksiin

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The illative plural of uupua (to get exhausted) with the interfix -ksi-.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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uuvuksiin

  1. to exhaustion (to the state of exhaustion)
    Juostuaan itsensä uuvuksiin poro oli susille helppo saalis.
    After running itself to exhaustion the reindeer was an easy prey for the wolves.

Inflection

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→○ illative uuvuksiin
inessive uuvuksissa
○→ elative

Further reading

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