ehkä
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *ehkä (compare Estonian ehk, Ingrian ehkä, Karelian ehki, Livonian agā, Livvi ehki, Votic ehtši; see for further etymology). Probably from Proto-Finnic *e- + *-hkä.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ehkä
Usage notes
[edit]| Negative contractions for ehkä | ||
|---|---|---|
| basic form | ehkä | |
| negative | singular | plural |
| 1st person | ehken | ehkemme |
| 2nd person | ehket | ehkette |
| 3rd person | ehkei | ehkeivät |
These contractions are used with the indicative forms of the negative verb ei. They are common, but optional. | ||
Conjunction
[edit]ehkä (archaic)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ehkä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]Ingrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *ehkä. Cognates with Finnish ehkä and Estonian ehk.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈehkæ/, [ˈe̞xk]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈehkæ/, [ˈe̞xkæ]
- Rhymes: -ehk, -ehkæ
- Hyphenation: eh‧kä
Adverb
[edit]ehkä
- Synonym of ehki
References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 28
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ehkæ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ehkæ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adverbs
- Finnish conjunctions
- Finnish archaic terms
- Ingrian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Ingrian terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Ingrian/ehk
- Rhymes:Ingrian/ehk/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Ingrian/ehkæ
- Rhymes:Ingrian/ehkæ/2 syllables
- Ingrian lemmas
- Ingrian adverbs