fina

See also: FINA, finá, and fină

English

Alternative forms

Contraction

fina

  1. African American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
    • 2008, Jodie Miller, quoting Lisa, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:
      I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
    • 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:
      "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
    • 2013, Jody Miller, quoting Shauntell, “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:
      Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
    • 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:
      "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"

References

  • fina', The Rice University Neologisms Database

Anagrams


Asturian

Verb

fina

  1. third-person singular present indicative of finar
  2. second-person singular imperative of finar

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

fina

  1. feminine of fi

Esperanto

Etymology

From fino + -a.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfina/
  • Hyphenation: fin‧a
  • Rhymes: -ina

Adjective

fina (accusative singular finan, plural finaj, accusative plural finajn)

  1. final

Galician

Adjective

fina

  1. feminine singular of fino

Italian

Adjective

fina f sg

  1. feminine singular of fino

Anagrams


Novial

Verb

fina (past finad, active participle finant, passive participle finat)

  1. end

Antonyms


Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfinɑ/

Noun

fina m

  1. woodpecker
    Finena tungan habbaþ ēare on þām ende, mid þām hīe hlosniaþ ċeorfdēora tō etanne.
    Woodpeckers' tongues have an ear at the end, with which they listen for insects to eat.

Declension

Synonyms


Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfi.nɐ/
  • Hyphenation: fi‧na

Adjective

fina

  1. Feminine singular of adjective fino.

Verb

fina

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of finar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of finar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfina/

Adjective

fina f sg

  1. feminine singular of fino

Verb

fina

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of finir.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of finir.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of finir.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of finir.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

fina

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of fin.
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