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Finnish
Etymology
The adessive singular of mieli (mielellä) with a possessive suffix.
Pronunciation
Adverb
mielellään (comparative mieluummin, superlative mieluiten) (Note that the comparative and superlative forms are in fact forms of the synonymous adverb mieluusti; mielellään itself has no such forms)
- gladly, willingly, with pleasure
Autan sinua mielelläni.- I will gladly help you.
- (often with saada in conditional mood and an infinitive) preferably, rather
Hän saisi mielellään olla vähän viisaampi.- S/he rather ought to be a bit wiser.
Inflection
Mielellään is inflected in the person of whom it refers to. In colloquial Finnish, this is not always observed: *Autan sinua mielellään is not uncommon, but it is considered nonstandard and ungrammatical.
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