vähän
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See also: vahan
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The instructive or genitive singular of vähä.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʋæhæn/, [ˈʋæɦæn]
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -æhæn
- Syllabification(key): vä‧hän
- Hyphenation(key): vä‧hän
Adverb
[edit]vähän (comparative vähemmän, superlative vähiten)
- few (not many, only a small number of)
- a little (a small amount of; to a small extent or degree)
- Antonym: paljon
- Ottaisin mielelläni vähän lisää.
- I'd like to take a little more.
- (of time, somewhat informal) early (almost always with kello (“clock”))
- Kello on vielä vähän.
- It's still early.
- (slang, often in the beginning of a sentence) very
- Vähän on hyvää safkaa!
- The food is very good!
Noun
[edit]vähän
Further reading
[edit]- “vähän”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023
Veps
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Finnish vähän.
Adverb
[edit]vähän
References
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/æhæn
- Rhymes:Finnish/æhæn/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adverbs
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish slang
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish noun forms
- Veps lemmas
- Veps adverbs