mikin

Finnish

Etymology

mikä (“what, which”) +‎ -kin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmikin/, [ˈmik̟in]
• Rhymes: -ikin
• Syllabification^(key): mi‧kin

Pronoun

mikin

1. Synonym of mikäkin (“which; used always in connection with another interrogative pronoun”)

   Voi ei, sekoitit nimilaput! Nyt joudun päättelemään uudestaan, mikä mikin on.

   Oh no, you messed up the nametags. Now I have to figure out again which is which.

   Minne mikin kuuluu?

   Which belongs where?

Inflection

• Irregular. Some forms are the identical to the forms of mikä with the -kin suffix.

Declension of mikin noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative mikin – superessive – – genitive minkin – delative – – partitive mitäkin – sublative – – accusative mikin, minkin – lative – – inessive missäkin – temporal – – elative mistäkin – causative – – illative mihinkin – multiplicative – – adessive milläkin – distributive – – ablative miltäkin – temp. dist. – – allative millekin – prolative – – essive minäkin – situative – – translative miksikin – oppositive – – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

Derived terms

compounds

• minkinikäinen

 

Related terms

polarity pair	positive	mikin, mikäkin
	negative	mikään

Further reading

• “mikin”, 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 2023-07-03