vielä
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *veelä (compare Estonian veel), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian vēl (“yet, still, again”), Lithuanian vėl (“again”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vielä
- yet (thus far; usually with negative)
- Emme ole siellä vielä.
- We are not there yet.
- yet, even (to an even greater degree; emphasizing a comparative)
- Vielä suurempi.
- Even larger.
- still (up to a time, as in the preceding time)
- still (nevertheless)
- Synonym: silti
- another (determiner in English), in addition, more
- Minä otan vielä yhden oluen.
- I'll have another beer.
- Otan mukaani vielä tämän.
- I'll take this thing with me too.
- Vielä kerran!
- Once more!
Synonyms[edit]
- (even, still): vieläkin
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “vielä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04