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Finnish
Etymology
The inessive plural of tosi (tosissa) with a possessive suffix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtosisːɑːn/,
- Rhymes: -osisːɑːn
- Syllabification(key): to‧sis‧saan
- Hyphenation(key): to‧sis‧saan
Adverb
tosissaan
- serious(ly), in earnest
Olen tosissani tämän suhteen.- I am serious about this. / I mean it/business. / I'm not fooling around.
Usage notes
This adverb can be used predicatively with olla (“to be”); it can be used as an adjective in other positions (such as attributively) by using oleva. Like many other similar adverbs, it is inflected by person in standard Finnish, but in spoken colloquial Finnish, it often appears in the third-person form even when referring to the speaker or interlocutor: Olen tosissani and Olen tosissaan are both possible but the latter is considered nonstandard; likewise Ootsä tosissas? and Ootsä tosissaan? (“Are you serious?”)
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