viime
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Proto-Finnic *viimä- (whence also viimeinen (“last”)), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wiŋe-mä (same root *wiŋe as in viipyä (“to stay”)). The final vowel may be by analogy with viimein, viimeinen (note however the dialectal viimi, also found in Karelian viimi).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʋiːme/, [ˈʋiːme̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈʋiːmeˣ/, [ˈʋiːme̞(ʔ)] (now rare)
- Rhymes: -iːme
- Syllabification(key): vii‧me
Adjective
[edit]viime (not comparable, indeclinable, only used attributively)
- last, past (most recent, last so far)
- Synonym: edellinen
- viime vuonna ― last year
- viime kesänä ― last summer
- (chiefly in idioms) last, dying
- Synonyms: see viimeinen
- viime henkäys ― last breath
- viime hetki ― last moment
- Päivänvalon viime hetkinä huomasin purjeen horisontissa.
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
Usage notes
[edit]- (last, past): viime is practically always relative to the present moment, and edellinen is used when the one preceding a past, future, or hypothetical instance is intended.
Declension
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “viime”, 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 2023-07-04
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