nääs
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "naas"
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Dialectal form of näe (second-person singular imperative of nähdä (“to see”)) + -s (clitic).
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]nääs (colloquial)
- see (singular imperative)
- (Tampere, Southern Pirkanmaa) General intensifier akin to English see. (singular imperative)
- Se on nääs sillä lailla.
- See, that’s the way it is.
Usage notes
[edit]The plural imperative is nähkääs.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nääs”, 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