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suojaa vailla ― in need of protection, looking for shelter
Mitä sinä olet vailla?
What do you want? / What are you looking for?
(literally, “What are you in need of?”)
Usage notes
As seen above, this adposition can be used both as a preposition (before the main word) and as a postposition (after the main word), although with a slight change of meaning.
“vailla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04