entä
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed either from North Germanic (compare Old Norse enda) or from Middle Low German ende, in either case ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anþi. Compare Estonian ent (“but”), Ingrian entä (“but, however”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈentæ/, [ˈe̞n̪t̪æ]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -entæ
- Syllabification(key): en‧tä
- Hyphenation(key): en‧tä
Conjunction
entä
- what about
- Minä lähden – entä sinä?
- I'll go – what about you?
- Sinulla on selvästi hauskaa, mutta entä minulla?
- You're obviously having a good time, but what about me?
- Entä toinen maali!
- What about the second goal!
- (dialectal) than (in comparisons)
- Synonym: kuin
- Meijän isä on kovempi entä teijän isä.
- My father is cooler than your father.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “entä”, 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 2 July 2023