mikä

See also: mika and Mika

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi +‎ -kä (*mikä), from Proto-Uralic *mi. Cognate with Estonian mis, Veps mi, Võro miä, Hungarian mi.

Pronoun

mikä (stem mi-)

  1. (interrogative) which, what.
  2. (indefinite) whatever.
  3. (relative) which, that, what.

Usage notes
  • (relative) Mikä is used to refer to a whole sentence (1), a superlative or a noun modified by a superlative (2) or a pronoun not referring to a person (3):
  • (1) Kaikki menikin lopulta hyvin, mikä oli suuri helpotus.
Ultimately, everything went well which was a great relief.
  • (2) Se on parasta, mitä minulle on koskaan tapahtunut.
It/That is the best that has ever happened to me.
  • (2) Se on paras elokuva, minkä olen koskaan nähnyt.
It/That is the best film that I have ever seen.
  • (3) Hän todisti sen, mikä oli todistettavissa.
He proved what was provable.
  • (3) Hän todisti kaiken, mikä oli todistettavissa.
He proved everything that was provable.

Inflection
  • Irregular. Some cases are never used.
Declension of mikä
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative mikä mitkäsuperessive – –
genitive minkä minkädelative – –
partitive mitä mitäsublative minne –
accusative mikä, minkä mitkälative – –
inessive missä missätemporal milloin –
elative mistä mistäcausative miten –
illative mihin mihinmultiplicative – –
adessive millä millädistributive – –
ablative miltä miltätemp. dist. – –
allative mille milleprolative – –
essive minä minäsituative – –
translative miksi miksioppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Synonyms
  • (relative): mi (archaic, poetic)

Derived terms

Determiner

mikä

  1. (interrogative) what, which

Anagrams

Ingrian

Pronoun

mikä

  1. what
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