mennä

• männä (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk, from Proto-Uralic *mene-. Cognates include Karelian männä, Estonian minna, Hungarian menni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenːæˣ/,
• Rhymes: -enːæ
• Syllabification^(key): men‧nä

mennä (intransitive)

1. to go (move away from a point of reference)

   mennä nukkumaan ― to go to sleep, go to bed

   mennä liian pitkälle ― to go too far

   mennä kalastamaan järvelle ― to go to fish at the lake

   mennä kahville ― to go for a coffee

2. to go, extend

   Synonyms: kulkea, ulottua

   Tie menee pellolle saakka.

   The road goes up to the field.

3. to go, lead (of a path, etc.)

   Synonyms: johtaa, kulkea, viedä

   Polku menee talon ohi.

   The path goes by the house.

4. to go, turn out, proceed

   Synonym: sujua

   Sehän meni ihan hyvin.

   That actually went quite well.

   Minulla menee ihan hyvin.

   I'm doing quite well. / Things are going quite well for me.

5. to go, enter, get, begin, start (general verb for describing entering some kind of state)

   mennä töihin ― to go to work, enter the workforce

   mennä myyntiin ― to go on sale

   mennä lakkoon ― to go on strike

   mennä kihloihin ― to get engaged/betrothed

   mennä poikki ― to snap in half/into pieces

   mennä hankalaksi ― to get difficult/tricky/complicated

6. (impersonal + illative) to be spent; take, pass, spend, go (time, resources, etc.) (see usage notes)

   Synonym: kulua

   Hyllyn kokoamiseen meni tunnin verran.

   Assembling the shelf took an hour.

   Siihen olisi voinut mennä kaksikin tuntia.

   It could've taken two hours.

7. (auxiliary) to go (and ) (do an action, implying that someone should be criticized for doing it)

   Miksi sinä menit sellaista tekemään?

   Why did you go and do that?

8. to go, fit

   Synonyms: mahtua, sopia

   Montako litraa siihen menee?

   How many litres can you fit in it?

   (literally, “How many litres go in it?”)

9. (colloquial) to do, be good enough

   Synonyms: käydä, menetellä

10. (informal) to sell

    Synonyms: myydä, mennä kaupaksi

• (to be spent; take, pass, spend):
  • This usage is intransitive and never receives a direct object. That which is spent is grammatically the subject despite it usually being placed after the verb, like in the usage examples above. The fact that it is a subject can be seen in that it exhibits the nominative case:

    Siihen meni tunti.

    It took an hour.

  • In the first usage example, verran is used, and the verb thus neither has a subject nor an object.
  • What the resources are spent on (the subject for take) is expressed in the illative case (for verbs, the illative case of the -minen or other action noun) and is often placed before the verb, as if it were a subject.
• The inessive form of the third infinitive is relatively seldom used, and the corresponding form of the noun meno are usually used instead, especially colloquially (i.e., menossa instead of menemässä).

Colloquially, the present stem mene- may be replaced in some forms with mee-:

• “mennä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎ (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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenːæ/

mennä

1. Alternative form of männä

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk. Cognates include Finnish mennä and Estonian minna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenʲːæ/
• Hyphenation: men‧nä
• Rhymes: -enʲːæ

mennä

1. (intransitive) to go
2. (intransitive) to leave
3. (intransitive) to fit
4. (intransitive, of time) to go by
5. (intransitive, of animals) to die
6. (intransitive, of foods) to become wasted

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “mennä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh), 2nd edition, →ISBN