mielestä
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mielestä
Postposition
[edit]mielestä [with genitive and／or possessive form]
- in one's opinion
- (minun) mielestäni... ― in my opinion...
- Lassen mielestä...
- in Lasse's opinion...
Usage notes
[edit]- If the complement is a personal pronoun, mielestä often takes a possessive suffix. The personal pronoun may then be omitted in the first or second person, in which case the person is only indicated by the possessive suffix.
Inflection
[edit]| Personal/possessive forms of mielestä | ||
|---|---|---|
| no possessor | mielestä | |
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | mielestäni | mielestämme |
| 2nd person | mielestäsi | mielestänne |
| 3rd person | mielestään mielestänsä | |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mielestä”, 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 2023-07-03