Definify.com
Definition 2024
sinä
sinä
Finnish
Pronoun
sinä (stem sinu-)
Declension
- Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms do not exist; the abessive is hardly used.
- In addition to the standard set of cases, sinä and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, in this case sinut. This form would have been the nominative plural form of the first stem, if the word were not a personal pronoun.
| Declension of sinä
|
Usage notes
- Depending on the context, the pronoun can sometimes be omitted in written language if the text remains fluent – the pronoun is in spoken language practically always used, though in different (mentioned above) dialectal variants. (cf. the usage of te, “you” (pl.))
- As in many other European languages, the second person plural te is used in formal contexts or when addressing an unfamiliar elderly person (see teititellä). However, this custom is not anymore as usual as elsewhere in Europe in everyday life – there is from time to time discussion whether this custom is inconvenient in modern society. However, a safe way to start conversation with an unfamiliar person, especially with an elderly person, is saying "te".
- When addressing another person in writing, Sinä is often capitalized.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- verbs: sinutella
See also
Etymology 2
Pronoun
sinä
- (demonstrative) Essive singular form of se.
Anagrams
Karelian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧nä
- IPA(key): [ˈsinæ]
Pronoun
sinä
- (personal) you
Declension
Declension of sinä
|
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.
Pronoun
sinä (genitive sinun, partitive sindai)
- you (singular)
Inflection
| Inflection of sinä | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | sinä | ||
| genitive sing. | sinun | ||
| partitive sing. | sindai | ||
| partitive plur. | teid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sinä | tö | |
| accusative | sinun | tö | |
| genitive | sinun | teiden | |
| partitive | sindai | teid | |
| essive-instructive | — | — | |
| translative | — | — | |
| inessive | sinus | teiš | |
| elative | sinuspäi | teišpäi | |
| illative | sinuhu | teihe | |
| adessive | sinai | teil | |
| ablative | sinaipäi | teilpäi | |
| allative | sinei | teile | |
| abessive | sinuta | teita | |
| comitative | sinunke | teidenke | |
| prolative | — | — | |
| approximative I | — | — | |
| approximative II | — | — | |
| egressive | — | — | |
| terminative I | — | — | |
| terminative II | — | — | |
| terminative III | — | — | |
| additive I | — | — | |
| additive II | — | — | |
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ты”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika