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poikki

poikki

See also: poikki-

Finnish

Adverb

poikki

broken into two or more pieces:

Onko sinulla luita poikki?

Do you have broken bones?
with a verb describing the means of breaking into two or more pieces; off:
leikata, sahata, vääntää tai purra poikki = to cut, saw, twist or bite off
(colloquial) exhausted, beat, dead tired:

Olen aivan poikki.

I'm dead tired.

Postposition

poikki (+ genitive)

across, through

Pallo vieri tien poikki.

The ball rolled across the street.

Inflection

Declension of poikki

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	poikki-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	pois	–
inessive	poissa	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	–	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	poikki (poikitse)	–
essive	–	–	situative	poikittain	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
instructive	–	poikin
abessive	–	–
comitative	–	–

Synonyms

(by, past) läpi
(by, past) poikitse (rare or archaic, poetic; dialectal)

Related terms

See the inflection table.
poikkinainen
poikittainen
poiketa