mihinkä
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The illative case of mikä with the suffix -ka retained. The standard illative case of the word is mihin (directly from the bare stem *mi-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]mihinkä
Usage notes
[edit]Depending on context, the term might be considered dated, dialectal, colloquial, or emphatic.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mihinkä”, 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 2023-12-01