mielellään

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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)

  1. gladly, willingly, with pleasure
    Autan sinua mielelläni.
    I will gladly help you.
    Osallistumme juhliisi mielellämme, jos meillä vain on aikaa.
    We will gladly attend your party if we have the time.
  2. (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.

Personal/possessive forms of mielellään
no possessor
possessor singular plural
1st person mielelläni mielellämme
2nd person mielelläsi mielellänne
3rd person mielellään
mielellänsä

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