rähmällään
Finnish
Etymology
The adessive singular of rähmä (“rheum”) (rähmällä) with a possessive suffix. Literally, “on one's rheum”, i.e. "face down".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈræhmælːæːn/, [ˈræhmælːæːn]
- Rhymes: -æhmælːæːn
- Syllabification(key): räh‧mäl‧lään
Adverb
rähmällään
- prone (lying face down)
- (figuratively) grovelling (to abase oneself before another person)
- Toisen maailmansodan jälkeen Suomi oli rähmällään Neuvostoliiton edessä.
- After the Second World War Finland had to grovel in front of the Soviet Union.
Inflection
| →○ | allative | rähmälleen |
|---|---|---|
| ○ | adessive | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
| ○→ | ablative | rähmältään |
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Synonyms
- (prone): mahallaan, vatsallaan
See also
Further reading
- “rähmällään”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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