toissa
See also: töissä
Finnish
Etymology
From the essive case form of toinen (“second”): toissa < toisna < toisena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoi̯sːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞i̯s̠ːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -oisːɑ
- Syllabification(key): tois‧sa
- Hyphenation(key): tois‧sa
Adjective
toissa (not comparable, indeclinable, only used attributively)
- before last (denotes the period before last, usually in the expressions of time for longer than one hour)
- Kävin toissa päivänä kirkossa. ― I went to church the day before yesterday.
- Toissa päivä oli sateinen. ― The day before yesterday was rainy.
- Kävin toissa kuussa Espanjassa. ― I went to Spain the month before last.
- Toissa yönä oli ukkosta. ― There was some thunder the night before last.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “toissa”, 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 3 July 2023