uuvuksiin

Finnish

Etymology

The illative plural of uupua (“to get exhausted”) with the interfix -ksi-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːʋuksiːn/, [ˈuːʋuks̠iːn]
  • Rhymes: -uːʋuksiːn
  • Syllabification(key): uu‧vuk‧siin
  • Hyphenation(key): uu‧vuk‧siin

Adverb

uuvuksiin

  1. to exhaustion (to the state of exhaustion)
    Juostuaan itsensä uuvuksiin poro oli susille helppo saalis.
    After running itself to exhaustion the reindeer was an easy prey for the wolves.

Inflection

→○ illative uuvuksiin
○ inessive uuvuksissa
○→ elative –

Further reading

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