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mennä

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See also: menna

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk, from Proto-Uralic *mene-. Cognates include Karelian männä, Estonian minna, Hungarian menni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmenːæˣ/, [ˈme̞nːæ(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -enːæ
  • Syllabification(key): men‧nä
  • Hyphenation(key): men‧nä

Verb

mennä (intransitive)

  1. to go [with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’] (move away from a point of reference)
    mennä nukkumaan ― to go to sleep, go to bed
    mennä liian pitkälle ― to go too far
    mennä kalastamaan järvelle ― to go to fish at the lake
    mennä kahville ― to go for a coffee
  2. to go, extend
    Synonyms: kulkea, ulottua
    Tie menee pellolle saakka.
    The road goes up to the field.
  3. to go, lead (of a path, etc.)
    Synonyms: johtaa, kulkea, viedä
    Polku menee talon ohi.
    The path goes by the house.
  4. to go, turn out, proceed
    Synonym: sujua
    Sehän meni ihan hyvin.
    That actually went quite well.
    Minulla menee ihan hyvin.
    I'm doing quite well. / Things are going quite well for me.
  5. to go, enter, get, begin, start [(of direction or state) with illative; or (what something or someone becomes, e.g. adjectives) with translative; or with adverb] (general verb for describing entering some kind of state)
    mennä töihin ― to go to work, enter the workforce
    mennä myyntiin ― to go on sale
    mennä lakkoon ― to go on strike
    mennä kihloihin ― to get engaged/betrothed
    mennä poikki ― to snap in half/into pieces
    mennä hankalaksi ― to get difficult/tricky/complicated
    Tämä alkaa mennä vähän saivarteluksi.
    This is starting to get a bit nitpicky.
  6. (impersonal + illative) to be spent; take, pass, spend, go (time, resources, etc.) (see usage notes)
    Synonym: kulua
    Hyllyn kokoamiseen meni tunnin verran.
    Assembling the shelf took an hour.
    Siihen olisi voinut mennä kaksikin tuntia.
    It could've taken two hours.
  7. to go (and [do]) [with illative of third infinitive] (do an action, implying that someone should be criticized for doing it)
    Miksi sinä menit sellaista tekemään?
    Why did you go and do that?
  8. to go, fit [with illative ‘in/into’]
    Synonyms: mahtua, sopia
    Montako litraa siihen menee?
    How many litres can you fit in it?
    (literally, “How many litres go in it?”)
  9. to go (be expressed or composed in a certain way, e.g. of the words in a song)
  10. (colloquial) to do, be good enough
    Synonyms: käydä, menetellä
  11. (informal) to sell
    Synonyms: myydä, mennä kaupaksi

Usage notes

  • (to be spent; take, pass, spend):
    • This usage is intransitive and never receives a direct object. That which is spent is grammatically the subject despite it usually being placed after the verb, like in the usage examples above. The fact that it is a subject can be seen in that it exhibits the nominative case:
      Siihen meni tunti.
      It took an hour.
    • In the first usage example, verran is used, and the verb thus neither has a subject nor an object.
    • What the resources are spent on (the subject for take) is expressed in the illative case (for verbs, the illative case of the -minen or other action noun) and is often placed before the verb, as if it were a subject.
  • The inessive form of the third infinitive is relatively seldom used, and the corresponding form of the noun meno are usually used instead, especially colloquially (i.e., menossa instead of menemässä).

Conjugation

More information indicative mood, present tense ...

Colloquially, the present stem mene- may be replaced in some forms with mee-:

Colloquial forms

Standard forms are shown before the colloquial forms for reference.

More information Description, Standard ...

Derived terms

adverbs
nouns
postpositions
verbs
compounds

Further reading

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Karelian

Pronunciation

Verb

mennä

  1. alternative form of männä

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk. Cognates include Finnish mennä and Estonian minna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmenʲːæ/
  • Hyphenation: men‧nä
  • Rhymes: -enʲːæ

Verb

mennä

  1. (intransitive) to go
  2. (intransitive) to leave
  3. (intransitive) to fit
  4. (intransitive, of time) to go by
  5. (intransitive, of animals) to die
  6. (intransitive, of foods) to become wasted

References

  • N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009), Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019), “mennä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

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