mielestä

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmie̯lestæ/, [ˈmie̞̯le̞s̠tæ]
  • Rhymes: -ielestæ
  • Syllabification(key): mie‧les‧tä
  • Hyphenation(key): mie‧les‧tä

Noun

mielestä

  1. elative singular of mieli
    En saa onnettomuutta mielestäni.
    I cannot get the accident out of my mind.

Postposition

mielestä [with genitive and/or possessive form]

  1. in one's opinion
    (minun) mielestäni... ― in my opinion...
    Lassen mielestä...
    in Lasse's opinion...

Usage notes

  • If the complement is a personal pronoun, mielestä often takes a possessive suffix. The personal pronoun may then be omitted in the first or second person, in which case the person is only indicated by the possessive suffix.

Inflection

Personal/possessive forms of mielestä
no possessor mielestä
possessor singular plural
1st person mielestäni mielestämme
2nd person mielestäsi mielestänne
3rd person mielestään
mielestänsä

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