kylillä

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkylilːæ/, [ˈk̟ylilːæ]
  • Rhymes: -ylilːæ
  • Syllabification(key): ky‧lil‧lä

Noun

kylillä

  1. adessive plural of kylä

Adverb

kylillä (dialectal)

  1. (idiomatic) in one or more villages or neighbourhoods nearby (especially the central one of) one's residence area
    Ootko käyny kylillä viime aikoina?
    Have you lately visited the villages/village [nearby]?
    Kylillä kuuluu sähköt katkenneen.
    It's said, the power grid's gone down in the villages/village.

Usage notes
  • Despite having a plural form, the term may, differently from the modern standard Finnish, have a meaning of just one object, also.
It also differs from the standard language by using adessive case instead of inessive.
There are parallel forms in allative and ablative cases to be used when needed.
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