uhalla
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Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
uhalla
Adverb[edit]
uhalla
- (genitive + ~ or ~ + relative clause) at the risk of
- Tyhmältä kuulostamisen uhalla, miten se toimii?
- Silläkin uhalla, että kuulostan tyhmältä, miten se toimii?
- At the risk of sounding stupid, how does it work?
- (genitive + ~) urged or forced by (someone), often with some threat
- (figuratively) for kicks, because one feels like it (when the person urging is the same as the person doing that action)
Inflection[edit]
Possessive suffixes are only used with the second meaning and are optional, unless no word in genitive is given.
| Personal/possessive forms of uhalla | ||
|---|---|---|
| no possessor | uhalla | |
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | uhallani | uhallamme |
| 2nd person | uhallasi | uhallanne |
| 3rd person | uhallaan uhallansa | |
Further reading[edit]
- “uhalla”, 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 2023-07-03