hukkaan
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhukːɑːn/, [ˈhukːɑ̝ːn]
- Rhymes: -ukːɑːn
- Syllabification(key): huk‧kaan
- Hyphenation(key): huk‧kaan
Etymology 1
Adverb
hukkaan
- (of result) wasted, lost
- mennä hukkaan ― to be wasted, go to waste, go wasted
- joutua hukkaan ― to end up wasted
- heittää hukkaan ― to waste. squander
- valua hukkaan ― to be wasted (away), come to nothing
- (of result) lost, missing, misplaced
- mennä hukkaan ― to be lost, go missing
- joutua hukkaan ― to end up lost
Inflection
| →○ | illative | hukkaan |
|---|---|---|
| ○ | inessive | hukassa |
| ○→ | elative | – |
Derived terms
Noun
hukkaan
Further reading
- “hukkaan”, 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
Etymology 2
Verb
hukkaan
- first-person singular present indicative of hukata