mikin

Finnish

Etymology 1

mikä (“what, which”) +‎ -kin

Pronoun

mikin

  1. a form of mikä, same as "mikäkin", which. Used always in connection with another interrogative pronoun.
    Voi ei, sekoitit nimilaput! Nyt joudun päättelemään uudestaan, mikä mikin on.
    Oh no, you messed up the nametags. Now I have to figure out again which is which.
    Minne mikin kuuluu?
    Which belongs where?
Inflection
  • Irregular. Some forms are the identical to the forms of mikä with the -kin suffix.
Declension of mikin
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative mikin –superessive – –
genitive minkin –delative – –
partitive mitäkin –sublative – –
accusative mikin, minkin –lative – –
inessive missäkin –temporal – –
elative mistäkin –causative – –
illative mihinkin –multiplicative – –
adessive milläkin –distributive – –
ablative miltäkin –temp. dist. – –
allative millekin –prolative – –
essive minäkin –situative – –
translative miksikin –oppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Etymology 2

Noun

mikin

  1. Genitive singular form of mikki.
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