meitsi
Finnish
Etymology
Clipping of meikäläinen + -tsi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmei̯tsi/, [ˈme̞i̯ts̠i]
- Rhymes: -eitsi
- Syllabification(key): meit‧si
- Hyphenation(key): meit‧si
Pronoun
meitsi (colloquial)
- synonym of meikäläinen
- Coordinate term: teitsi (“you”)
Usage notes
Verbs used with this pronoun are inflected in the third person.
Declension
| Inflection of meitsi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | meitsi | — | |
| genitive | meitsin | — | |
| partitive | meitsiä | — | |
| illative | meitsiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | meitsi | — | |
| accusative | nom. | meitsi | — |
| gen. | meitsin | ||
| genitive | meitsin | — | |
| partitive | meitsiä | — | |
| inessive | meitsissä | — | |
| elative | meitsistä | — | |
| illative | meitsiin | — | |
| adessive | meitsillä | — | |
| ablative | meitsiltä | — | |
| allative | meitsille | — | |
| essive | meitsinä | — | |
| translative | meitsiksi | — | |
| abessive | meitsittä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “meitsi”, 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 3 July 2023