yksinään

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Finnish

Etymology

The essive plural of yksi (yksinä) with a possessive suffix.

Pronunciation

Adverb

yksinään

  1. alone, by oneself

Inflection

Yksinään is inflected in the person of whom it refers to. In colloquial Finnish, this is not always observed: *Olen täällä yksinään ("I am here by myself") is not uncommon, but it is considered nonstandard and ungrammatical.


Personal/possessive forms of yksinään
no possessor
possessor singular plural
1st person yksinäni yksinämme
2nd person yksinäsi yksinänne
3rd person yksinään
yksinänsä

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