sinä

• IPA^(key): /ˈsinæ/, [ˈs̠inæ]

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• Rhymes: -inæ
• Syllabification^(key): si‧nä

From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä. See the Proto-Finnic entry for more information on inflection.

sinä (stem sinu-)

1. (personal) you (second-person singular personal pronoun, used in familiar or neutral contexts), thou

• Depending on the context, the pronoun can sometimes be omitted in written language if the text remains fluent – in spoken language, the pronoun is practically always used (compare the usage of te (“you pl”)).
• As in many other European languages, the second person plural te is used in formal contexts or when addressing an unfamiliar elderly person (see teititellä). However, this custom is not anymore as usual as elsewhere in Europe in everyday life – there is from time to time discussion whether this custom is inconvenient in modern society. However, a safe way to start conversation with an unfamiliar person, especially with an elderly person, is saying te.
• When addressing another person in writing, sinä is often capitalized (Sinä).
• See this appendix for information on the dialectal variants of sinä.

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms do not exist; the abessive sinutta and teittä is hardly used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, sinä and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, in this case sinut. This form would have been the nominative plural form of the first stem if the word were not a personal pronoun.

• sä (colloquial)
• sa (archaic, poetic)
• sie (dialectal)
• siä (dialectal)
• sää (dialectal)
• snää (dialectal)
• nää (dialectal)

• Kven: sie

• “sinä”, 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 2023-07-01

sinä

1. (demonstrative) essive singular of se

• isän, nisä, säin

From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Finnish sinä and Karelian sie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsinʲæ/
• Hyphenation: si‧nä
• Rhymes: -inʲæ

sinä

1. thou, you (singular)

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 10
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 258

From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.

sinä (genitive sinun, partitive sindai)

1. you (singular)

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