niin kuin
Appearance
See also: niinkuin and niin ... kuin
Finnish
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]- as if, as though (in a manner suggesting)
- Vanha mies kompuroi, niin kuin olisi kaatumaisillaan.
- The old man stumbled, as if he were about to fall.
- Olen niin kuin en olisi kuullutkaan tuota!
- I'll pretend I didn't hear that!
- as if (in mimicry of)
- Kun opettajan selkä kääntyi, luokan pelle piteli vatsaansa niin kuin voisi pahoin.
- When the teacher's back was turned, the class clown would hold his stomach as if he were ill.
- as, like (the same way; always followed by something compared to)
- Synonym: kuten
- Älkää tehkö niin kuin minä teen, tehkää niin kuin minä sanon.
- Don't do as I do, do as I say.
- as in (with abbreviations, especially single-letter abbreviations), is for, stands for
Alternative forms
[edit]- niinkuin (archaic; now considered a misspelling)
Synonyms
[edit]- (as if): ikään kuin
- niinku (colloquial)
Further reading
[edit]- “niin kuin”, 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