sä

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sa" and SVO

Finnish

Etymology

Dialectal variant of sinä that has developed through contraction; see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *cinä, for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsæ/, [ˈs̠æ]
  • Rhymes: -æ
  • Syllabification(key): sä

Pronoun

sä

  1. (personal, colloquial) you, ya (second person singular personal pronoun)

Declension

  • Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases, in practice highly rare for personal pronouns anyway, are not used.
  • In addition to the standard set of cases, sä as well as sinä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, sut.

Synonyms

  • sinä (standard Finnish; see it for the full list)

Further reading

Anagrams

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sää.

Noun

sä

  1. weather

Inflection

Inflection of sä (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing. sä
genitive sing. sän
partitive sing. säd
partitive plur. —
singular plural
nominative sä —
accusative sän —
genitive sän —
partitive säd —
essive-instructive sän —
translative säks —
inessive säs —
elative säspäi —
illative sähä
shä
—
adessive säl —
ablative sälpäi —
allative säle —
abessive säta —
comitative sänke —
prolative sädme —
approximative I sänno —
approximative II sännoks —
egressive sännopäi —
terminative I sähäsai
shäsai
—
terminative II sälesai —
terminative III sässai —
additive I sähäpäi
shäpäi
—
additive II sälepäi —

Derived terms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “погода”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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