väkisin
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Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (colloquial) väkisten
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *väkicin, equivalent to väki (“force”) + -isin, or the instructive plural of väkinen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]väkisin
- by force, involuntarily
- (figuratively) in a forced manner (produced by strain; not spontaneous; unsincere)
Synonyms
[edit]- väen vängällä
- vängällä
- ikinsokin (dialectal)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “väkisin”, 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