sä
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sa" and SVO
Finnish
Etymology
Dialectal variant of sinä that has developed through contraction; see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *cinä, for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsæ/, [ˈs̠æ]
- Rhymes: -æ
- Syllabification(key): sä
- Hyphenation(key): sä
Pronoun
sä
Declension
- Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases, in practice highly rare for personal pronouns anyway, are not used.
- In addition to the standard set of cases, sä as well as sinä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, sut.
Synonyms
- sinä (standard Finnish; see it for the full list)
Further reading
- “sä”, 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
Anagrams
North Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Frisian siā, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.
Pronunciation
- (Föhr-Amrum) IPA(key): [sɛ]
Verb
sä
- (Föhr-Amrum) to see
Conjugation
| infinitive I | sä | |
|---|---|---|
| infinitive II | (tu) sen | |
| past participle | sen | |
| imperative singular | sä | |
| imperative plural | sä’m | |
| present | past | |
| 1st singular | sä | siig |
| 2nd singular | schochst | siigst |
| 3rd singular | schocht | siig |
| plural | sä | siig |
| perfect | pluperfect | |
| 1st singular | haa sen | hed sen |
| 2nd singular | heest sen | hedst sen |
| 3rd singular | hee sen | hed sen |
| plural | haa sen | hed sen |
| future (skel) | future (wel) | |
| 1st singular | skal sä | wal sä |
| 2nd singular | skääl sä | wääl sä |
| 3rd singular | skal sä | wal sä |
| plural | skel sä | wel sä |
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sää.
Noun
sä
Inflection
| Inflection of sä (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | sä | ||
| genitive sing. | sän | ||
| partitive sing. | säd | ||
| partitive plur. | — | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sä | — | |
| accusative | sän | — | |
| genitive | sän | — | |
| partitive | säd | — | |
| essive-instructive | sän | — | |
| translative | säks | — | |
| inessive | säs | — | |
| elative | säspäi | — | |
| illative | sähä shä |
— | |
| adessive | säl | — | |
| ablative | sälpäi | — | |
| allative | säle | — | |
| abessive | säta | — | |
| comitative | sänke | — | |
| prolative | sädme | — | |
| approximative I | sänno | — | |
| approximative II | sännoks | — | |
| egressive | sännopäi | — | |
| terminative I | sähäsai shäsai |
— | |
| terminative II | sälesai | — | |
| terminative III | sässai | — | |
| additive I | sähäpäi shäpäi |
— | |
| additive II | sälepäi | — | |