vielä
(Redirected from ei vielä)
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Finnic *veelä (compare Estonian veel), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian vēl (“yet, still, again”), Lithuanian vėl (“again”)).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editvielä
- yet (thus far; usually with negative)
- Emme ole siellä vielä.
- We are not there yet.
- yet, even (to an even greater degree; emphasizing a comparative)
- Vielä suurempi.
- Even larger.
- still (up to a time, as in the preceding time)
- still (nevertheless)
- Synonym: silti
- another (determiner in English), in addition, more
- Minä otan vielä yhden oluen.
- I'll have another beer.
- Otan mukaani vielä tämän.
- I'll take this thing with me too.
- Vielä kerran!
- Once more!
Synonyms
edit- (even, still): vieläkin
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “vielä”, 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 2023-07-04