Talk:-vinaan

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• -vinaan/vinään I think that would be the active present participle plural in the essive case + 3rd person possesive suffix; but how does it translate in the following sentences: "Tuokion Janne oli näkevinään sen kasvojen paikalla pienen pojan naaman." & "Janne oli kuulevinaan keittiöstä nyyhkäisyn."? Wisapi 02:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't know which form it is grammatically, but this expression generally means 'to pretend to be doing something'. However, in combination with a verb that describes sensing (e.g. kuulla, tuntea) it means 'to think or believe to have sensed something', i.e. the person speaking is not sure whether the sensation is real. Hekaheka

- The grammatical form is called kvasirakenne. --Hekaheka (talk) 18:00, 28 January 2017 (UTC)