etenkään

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Finnish

Etymology

eten +‎ -kään; see etenkin.

Pronunciation

Adverb

etenkään

  1. (chiefly in the negative) especially (not)
    Synonym: varsinkaan
    Antonyms: etenkin, varsinkin

Usage notes

polarity
pair 		positive etenkin
negative etenkään

Inflection

Declension of esi- (type 27*F/käsi)
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative esi- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive – –sublative – –
accusative – –lative edes –
inessive edessä –temporal – –
elative edestä –causative – –
illative eteen esiinmultiplicative – –
adessive edellä esillädistributive – –
ablative edeltä esiltätemp. dist. – –
allative edelle esilleprolative editse –
essive – –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive etenkin
etenkään		 –
comitative – –

Further reading

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