finna

Reduction of fixing to.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪn(n)ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪnə

finna (auxiliary)

1. (African-American, Southern US) A modal used to express a desire or future action.

   I'm finna go to the store.

   • 1999, Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, →ISBN:

     Aw, dude, you finna get yo' ass whooped, mufucka.

   • 2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:

     I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread these wings / And the world finna know my name, now listen to me

   • 2012, Cam Rascoe, Restless for Retribution: A Series of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 121:

     I ain't talkin' about what you did homie, I'm talkin' about what's finna happen.

• gonna; tryna

• Finan

• IPA^(key): /ˈfinna/
• Rhymes: -inna
• Hyphenation: fin‧na

finna (accusative singular finnan, plural finnaj, accusative plural finnajn)

1. Finnish

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finna f (genitive singular finnu, plural finnur)

1. (chess) pawn
2. small woman

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

finna (third person singular past indicative fann, third person plural past indicative funnu, supine funnið)

1. to find
2. to meet

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪnːa

  Homophone: Finna

finna (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fann, third-person plural past indicative fundu, supine fundið)

1. to find [with accusative]

   Synonym: uppgötva

   • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson

     Krummi krunkar úti,
     kallar á nafna sinn:
     „Ég fann höfuð af hrúti
     hrygg og gæruskinn.“
     Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
     krummi nafni minn.

     “The raven croaks outside,
     calling his namesake:
     ‘I found the head of a ram,
     backbone and sheepskin.’
     Come now and peck with me,
     Raven, my namesake.”

   Ég fann þig!

   I found you!

2. to meet [with accusative]

   Synonym: hitta

3. to sense, to feel something [with accusative]

   Synonym: skynja

• nafni

• finne (e and split infinitives)

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”). Cognates include Danish finde, Swedish finna, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (finþan), German finden, Dutch vinden, and English find.

• IPA^(key): /²fɪnːɑ/
• IPA^(key): /fiɲː/ (dialects with both palatalization and apocope)

finna (present tense finn, past tense fann, supine funne, past participle funnen, present participle finnande, imperative finn)

1. to find

• “finna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”). Cognate with Old English findan, Old Frisian finda, Old Saxon findan, Old Dutch findan, Old High German findan, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (finþan).

finna (singular past indicative fann, plural past indicative fundu, past participle fundinn)

1. to find

• Icelandic: finna
• Faroese: finna
• Norn: finna
• Norwegian Nynorsk: finna, finne
• Old Swedish: finna
  • Swedish: finna
• Old Danish: finnæ
  • Danish: finde
    • Norwegian Bokmål: finne
• Gutnish: finne, finn', finna

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “finna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną.

finna

1. to find
2. to notice
3. to deem, consider

• Swedish: finna

From Old Swedish finna, from Old Norse finna, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnːa/

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finna (present finner, preterite fann, supine funnit, imperative finn)

1. (slightly formal) to find, to locate, to discover

   Var kan man finna en kopp kaffe här i närheten?

   Where can you find a cup of coffee near here?

2. (formal) to find (something to be a particular way)

   Jag finner det mycket märkligt att ingen kan ta på sig ansvaret för det inträffade!

   I find it very strange that nobody is willing to take responsibility for what has happened!

3. (passive voice only) to exist

   Det finns nå'nstans en blå planet

   There exists somewhere, a blue planet

4. (reflexive) to find oneself (in a particular situation)

   Han såg sig i spegeln och fann sig vara en mås

   He looked in the mirror and found himself to be a gull

5. (reflexive, in "finna sig i") to put up with

   Jag tänker inte finna mig i det där!

   I won't put up with that!

   Jag var helt enkelt tvungen att finna mig i det

   I simply had to put up with it

6. (reflexive) to maintain or (quickly) regain one's composure (particularly of having a good reply)

   Åklagaren trodde han satt dit henne, men hon fann sig snabbt och gav ett övertygande svar

   The prosecutor thought he had her, but she quickly regained her composure and gave a convincing answer

See also finnas, which has a separate meaning of "to exist; to be."

• (find): hitta

• finna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• finna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• finna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)