sä

sä

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sa" and SVO

Finnish

Etymology

Dialectal variant of sinä; see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *cinä, for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæ/, [ˈs̠æ]
• Rhymes: -æ
• Syllabification^(key): sä

Pronoun

sä

1. (personal, colloquial) you, ya (second person singular personal pronoun)

Declension

• Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases are not used, the table shows an expression which means the same.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, sä as well as sinä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, sut.

Declension of sä noun case singular plural nominative sä – genitive sun – partitive sua – accusative sut – inessive sussa – elative susta – illative suhun – adessive sulla – ablative sulta – allative sulle – essive suna – translative suksi / suks – instructive sun avulla – abessive ilman sua – comitative – sun kanssa

Synonyms

• sinä (standard Finnish)
• sie, sää (dialectal)

Anagrams

• -äs, äs

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sää.

Noun

sä

1. weather

Inflection

Inflection of sä (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	sä
genitive sing.	sän
partitive sing.	säd
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	sä	—
accusative	sän	—
genitive	sän	—
partitive	säd	—
essive-instructive	sän	—
translative	säks	—
inessive	säs	—
elative	säspäi	—
illative	sähä shä	—
adessive	säl	—
ablative	sälpäi	—
allative	säle	—
abessive	säta	—
comitative	sänke	—
prolative	sädme	—
approximative I	sänno	—
approximative II	sännoks	—
egressive	sännopäi	—
terminative I	sähäsai shäsai	—
terminative II	sälesai	—
terminative III	sässai	—
additive I	sähäpäi shäpäi	—
additive II	sälepäi	—

Derived terms

• jumalansä
• sulasä
• vihmsä
• säciklon
• sätedotuz
• säntedo

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “погода”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē, from Proto-Indo-European *swé and Proto-Indo-European *se. Cognate with Old English swā (English so), Old Frisian sa, Old Saxon sō, Dutch zo, Old High German sō (German so), Swedish så, Danish så, Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌰 (swa), Latin si (from an earlier form suad), Oscan 𐌔𐌅𐌀𐌝 (svaí), Umbrian sve, Greek ὡς (hōs) (earlier *ϝος).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə/, [sɛ], [sʊ], [sœ] (example of pronunciation)
• (stressed) IPA^(key): /səː/, [seː], [sɛː], [sʊː], [sœː]

Adverb

sä

1. So, in this way, in that way.

   Ommä jär ä int sä!

   Indeed, it is not so!

   hódt hä jär sä hell sä

   whether it is like that or otherwise

2. So that.

   Han räddä fógeln sä’n flaug sän väj

   The scared the bird, so that it flew away.

3. That, as.
4. Very.

   Ji håll hä jär int sä felt.

   I assume it is not very bad.

5. (with implied adverb, with definite noun) A large amount of.

   he va sä snjön

   there was so much snow, very snowy

6. (conjunctive) Then, in that case, if so.

   Om ä sä bärs dill att du träff’n, sä be’n hels óppå mäg

   If you happen to meet him, then ask him to visit me.

Conjunction

sä

1. So.
2. Used to continue a sentence after a short pause.

   Einkä gruta ji att, sä mistä ji.

   The only little bit I had, I lost.

Alternative forms

• se
• so
• sö
• ʃe (after /r/ and /ɽ/)

Derived terms

• sedellvis
• seh matt he skri
• seh matt jere
• seh matt
• säddänä
• säjna
• sänna
• warasä

Pronoun

sä

1. Alternative form of seg