mielestä
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmie̯lestæ/, [ˈmie̞̯le̞s̠tæ]
- Rhymes: -ielestæ
- Syllabification(key): mie‧les‧tä
Noun
mielestä
- elative singular of mieli
- En saa onnettomuutta mielestäni.
- I cannot get the accident out of my mind.
Postposition
mielestä (+ genitive and/or possessive suffix)
- in one's opinion
- (minun) mielestäni... ― in my opinion...
- Lassen mielestä...
- in Lasse's opinion...
Usage notes
- If the complement is a personal pronoun, mielestä often takes a possessive suffix. The personal pronoun may then be omitted in the first or second person, in which case the person is only indicated by the possessive suffix.
Inflection
| Personal/possessive forms of mielestä | ||
|---|---|---|
| no possessor | mielestä | |
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | mielestäni | mielestämme |
| 2nd person | mielestäsi | mielestänne |
| 3rd person | mielestään mielestänsä | |
Related terms
Further reading
- “mielestä”, 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 2023-07-03
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