niksaa
Finnish
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈniksɑːˣ/, [ˈniks̠ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -iksɑː
- Syllabification(key): nik‧saa
- Hyphenation(key): nik‧saa
Verb
niksaa
- synonym of niksahdella
Conjugation
This verb is in practice only used in 3rd person indicative. Other forms are replaced with corresponding forms of synonymous verb niksua or niksahdella.
Inflection of niksaa (type kaikaa)
| indicative | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present | perfect | ||||||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | ||||
| 1st sing. | – | – | 1st sing. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd sing. | – | – | 2nd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd sing. | niksaa | ei niksaa | 3rd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 1st plur. | – | – | 1st plur. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd plur. | – | – | 2nd plur. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd plur. | niksaavat | eivät niksaa | 3rd plur. | – | – | ||||
| passive | – | – | passive | – | – | ||||
| past | pluperfect | ||||||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | ||||
| 1st sing. | – | – | 1st sing. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd sing. | – | – | 2nd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd sing. | – | – | 3rd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 1st plur. | – | – | 1st plur. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd plur. | – | – | 2nd plur. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd plur. | – | – | 3rd plur. | – | – | ||||
| passive | – | – | passive | – | – | ||||
| conditional | |||||||||
| present | perfect | ||||||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | ||||
| 1st sing. | – | – | 1st sing. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd sing. | – | – | 2nd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd sing. | niksaisi | ei niksaisi | 3rd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 1st plur. | – | – | 1st plur. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd plur. | – | – | 2nd plur. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd plur. | niksaisivat | eivät niksaisi | 3rd plur. | – | – | ||||
| passive | – | – | passive | – | – | ||||
| imperative | |||||||||
| present | perfect | ||||||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | ||||
| 1st sing. | – | – | 1st sing. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd sing. | – | – | 2nd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd sing. | – | – | 3rd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 1st plur. | – | – | 1st plur. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd plur. | – | – | 2nd plur. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd plur. | – | – | 3rd plur. | – | – | ||||
| passive | – | – | passive | – | – | ||||
| potential | |||||||||
| present | perfect | ||||||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | ||||
| 1st sing. | – | – | 1st sing. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd sing. | – | – | 2nd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd sing. | – | – | 3rd sing. | – | – | ||||
| 1st plur. | – | – | 1st plur. | – | – | ||||
| 2nd plur. | – | – | 2nd plur. | – | – | ||||
| 3rd plur. | – | – | 3rd plur. | – | – | ||||
| passive | – | – | passive | – | – | ||||
| Nominal forms | |||||||||
| infinitive | participle | ||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||
| 1st | – | present | – | – | |||||
| long 1st1 | – | past | – | – | |||||
| 2nd | inessive2 | – | – | agent4 | – | ||||
| instructive | – | – | negative | – | |||||
| 3rd | inessive | – | – | 1) Used only with a possessive suffix; this is the form for the third-person singular and third-person plural.
2) Usually with a possessive suffix (active only). | |||||
| elative | – | – | |||||||
| illative | – | – | |||||||
| adessive | – | – | |||||||
| abessive | – | – | |||||||
| instructive | – | – | |||||||
| 4th3 | verbal noun | – | |||||||
| 5th1 | – | ||||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “niksaa”, 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 1 July 2023
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈniksɑː/, [ˈniks̠ɑ̝ː]
- Rhymes: -iksɑː
- Syllabification(key): nik‧saa
- Hyphenation(key): nik‧saa
Verb
niksaa
- third-person singular present indicative of niksaa