siinä
Appearance
See also: Siina
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymologically formed from the old locative suffix -na rather than the standard inessive suffix -ssa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]siinä
- inessive singular of se
- Seiso siinä!
- Stand (right) there!
- Se on juuri siinä missä se on.
- It's right there where it is.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used as the regular inessive singular form of se, despite being morphologically irregular.
- siinä usually implies a more precise or exact location than siellä.
Further reading
[edit]- “siinä”, 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