perillä

See also: perilla, Perilla, and perillà

Finnish

Etymology

Adessive plural form of perä (in its archaic sense "ground"), which could be translated literally as "on the rears".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈperilːæ/, [ˈpe̞rilːæ]
• Rhymes: -erilːæ
• Hyphenation^(key): pe‧ril‧lä

Adverb

perillä

1. at the destination

   Olemme perillä.

   We have arrived/reached our destination.

Inflection

→○	allative	perille
○	adessive	perillä
○→	ablative	–

Noun

perillä

1. adessive plural of perä

Further reading

• “perillä”, 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