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-mme

-mme

See also: Mme

Finnish

Suffix

-mme

  1. (personal) Forms the first-person plural of verbs:

Usage notes

  • Suffixed to the same stem that the first person singular has both in the present and the past tense, and in all moods.
  • Colloquially, the indefinite person is used instead of the actual first person plural. See -an and -in.

Suffix

-mme (appended to the (strong) vowel stem; the final -n of the genitive and illative singular and plural or the -t of the nominative plural is omitted)

  1. (possessive) suffix used with or without meidän (the genitive of the personal pronoun me), corresponds to the English possessive pronoun our:
  2. (possessive) appended to a genitive-requiring postposition that is after or without meidän (the genitive of the personal pronoun me), us:
  3. (possessive) used in a participle structure replacing an "että" clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "we"; appended to the active present participle in genitive singular when the action is concurrent with the main clause:
  4. (possessive) used in a participle structure replacing an "että" clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "we"; appended to the active past participle in genitive singular when the said/alleged (etc.) action antedates the main clause:
  5. (possessive) used in a shortened sentence expressing concurrent actions when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the inessive of the active second infinitive:
  6. (possessive) used in a shortened sentence expressing subsequent actions when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the partitive of the passive past participle singular:
    • Tehtyämme läksymme (me) kuulimme laukauksen ulkoa.
      (After) having done / After doing our homework, we heard a shot from outside.
  7. (possessive) used in a final shortened sentence expressing "in order to do" when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the long first infinitive:
  8. (possessive) Used in some adverbs, when the clause has the subject "we".
  9. (possessive) Always appended to a noun in the comitative case when the clause has the subject "we".

Usage notes

  • The possessive suffix -mme is compulsory in standard Finnish. In standard Finnish, the genitive form of the corresponding personal pronoun "me" before the main word can be omitted. In colloquial Finnish, the suffix -mme is very rare and only the genitive form "meidän" (or its colloquial or dialectal variants) is used before the main word.
  • The shortened sentences except for the participle structures pertain mainly to standard Finnish, not to spoken Finnish. It is also to be noticed that the shortened clauses are never separated from the main clauses with a comma.

Derived terms

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