sisään

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Finnish

Etymology

Illative singular form of sisä-.

Pronunciation

Adverb

sisään (comparative sisempään, superlative sisimpään)

  1. into, in, inside, inwards (into a state of being in or inside something)
    Tule sisään!
    Come on in!
    vuoren sisään kaivettu tunneli ― a tunnel dug inside a mountain

Usage notes

Can be used postpositionally (+ genitive) and/or with a possessive suffix (when the complement is a personal pronoun). See the usage examples.

Inflection

Declension of sisä-
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative sisä- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive – –sublative – –
accusative – –lative – –
inessive sisässä –temporal – –
elative sisästä –causative – –
illative sisään –multiplicative – –
adessive sisällä –distributive – –
ablative sisältä –temp. dist. – –
allative sisälle –prolative – –
essive – –situative sisäkkäin –
translative – –oppositive sisätysten –
abessive – –
instructive – –
comitative – –

Antonyms

Derived terms

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