alakynnessä
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alakynnessä
Adverb
[edit]alakynnessä
- disadvantaged, unlikely to succeed, the underdog
Usage notes
[edit]This adverb can be used predicatively with olla (“to be”); it can be used as an adjective in other positions (such as attributively) by using oleva.
Inflection
[edit]→○ | illative | alakynteen |
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○ | inessive | alakynnessä |
○→ | elative | – |
Further reading
[edit]- “alakynnessä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02