By assimilation from dialectal minlainen, from min(kä) (“of which”) + -lainen (“kind of”). Cognate with Estonian milline (“what, what kind of”) and Ingrian millain, miltain, milläin (“what kind of”).
millainen (not comparable)
In everyday spoken language there are other variants of this word such as mimmonen and millanen which are well used and understood but which are considered as improper for use in the formal written language.
Inflection of millainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | millainen | millaiset | |
genitive | millaisen | millaisten millaisien | |
partitive | millaista | millaisia | |
illative | millaiseen | millaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | millainen | millaiset | |
accusative | nom. | millainen | millaiset |
gen. | millaisen | ||
genitive | millaisen | millaisten millaisien | |
partitive | millaista | millaisia | |
inessive | millaisessa | millaisissa | |
elative | millaisesta | millaisista | |
illative | millaiseen | millaisiin | |
adessive | millaisella | millaisilla | |
ablative | millaiselta | millaisilta | |
allative | millaiselle | millaisille | |
essive | millaisena | millaisina | |
translative | millaiseksi | millaisiksi | |
abessive | millaisetta | millaisitta | |
instructive | — | millaisin | |
comitative | — | millaisine |