alkujaan
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlkujɑːn/, [ˈɑ̝lkujɑ̝ːn]
- Rhymes: -ɑlkujɑːn
- Syllabification(key): al‧ku‧jaan
- Hyphenation(key): al‧ku‧jaan
Adverb
alkujaan (not comparable)
- originally, initially, at first
- Synonyms: see alun perin
Related terms
Noun
alkujaan
- third-person possessive form of partitive plural of alku
Further reading
- “alkujaan”, 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 2 July 2023