mielellään

Finnish

Etymology

The adessive singular of mieli (mielellä) with a possessive suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmie̯lelːæːn/, [ˈmie̞̯le̞lːæːn]
  • Rhymes: -ielelːæːn
  • Syllabification(key): mie‧lel‧lään

Adverb

mielellään (comparative mieluummin, superlative mieluiten) (Note that the comparative and superlative forms are in fact forms of the synonymous adverb mieluusti; mielellään itself has no such forms)

  1. gladly, willingly, with pleasure
    Autan sinua mielelläni.
    I will gladly help you.
  2. (often with saada in conditional mood and an infinitive) preferably, rather
    Hän saisi mielellään olla vähän viisaampi.
    S/he rather ought to be a bit wiser.

Inflection

Mielellään is inflected in the person of whom it refers to. In colloquial Finnish, this is not always observed: *Autan sinua mielellään is not uncommon, but it is considered nonstandard and ungrammatical.

Personal/possessive forms of mielellään
no possessor
possessor singular plural
1st person mielelläni mielellämme
2nd person mielelläsi mielellänne
3rd person mielellään
mielellänsä

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