millainen

millainen

Finnish

Etymology

Contraction of minkälainen < minkä (“of which”) +‎ -lainen (“kind of”), cognate with Estonian milline (“what, what kind of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmilːɑinen]
• Hyphenation: mil‧lai‧nen

Adjective

millainen (not comparable)

1. what, what kind of, what...like

   Millainen sää huomenna on?

   What's the weather like tomorrow?

Usage notes

In everyday spoken language there are other variants of this word such as mimmonen and mimmoinen which are well used and understood but which are considered as improper for use in the formal written language.

Declension

Inflection of millainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation)
nominative		millainen	millaiset
genitive		millaisen	millaisten millaisien
partitive		millaista	millaisia
illative		millaiseen	millaisiin
		singular	plural
nominative		millainen	millaiset
accusative	nom.	millainen	millaiset
	gen.	millaisen
genitive		millaisen	millaisten millaisien
partitive		millaista	millaisia
inessive		millaisessa	millaisissa
elative		millaisesta	millaisista
illative		millaiseen	millaisiin
adessive		millaisella	millaisilla
ablative		millaiselta	millaisilta
allative		millaiselle	millaisille
essive		millaisena	millaisina
translative		millaiseksi	millaisiksi
instructive		—	millaisin
abessive		millaisetta	millaisitta
comitative		—	millaisineen

Synonyms

• minkälainen