# mennä
## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* männä (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk, from Proto-Uralic *mene-. Cognates include Karelian männä, Estonian minna, Hungarian menni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmenːæˣ/, [ˈme̞nːæ(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -enːæ
* Hyphenation: men‧nä

### Verb

mennä (intransitive)
* to go [with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’] (move away from a point of reference)
    mennä nukkumaan ― to go to sleep, go to bed
    mennä liian pitkälle ― to go too far
    mennä kalastamaan järvelle ― to go to fish at the lake
    mennä kahville ― to go for a coffee
* to go, extend
    Synonyms: kulkea, ulottua
    Tie menee pellolle saakka.The road goes up to the field.
* to go, lead (of a path, etc.)
    Synonyms: johtaa, kulkea, viedä
    Polku menee talon ohi.The path goes by the house.
* to go, turn out, proceed
    Synonym: sujua
    Sehän meni ihan hyvin.That actually went quite well.
    Minulla menee ihan hyvin.I'm doing quite well. / Things are going quite well for me.
* to go, enter, get, begin, start [(of direction or state) with illative; or (what something or someone becomes, e.g. adjectives) with translative; or with adverb] (general verb for describing entering some kind of state)
    mennä töihin ― to go to work, enter the workforce
    mennä myyntiin ― to go on sale
    mennä lakkoon ― to go on strike
    mennä kihloihin ― to get engaged/betrothed
    mennä poikki ― to snap in half/into pieces
    mennä hankalaksi ― to get difficult/tricky/complicated
    Tämä alkaa mennä vähän saivarteluksi.This is starting to get a bit nitpicky.
* (impersonal + illative) to be spent; take, pass, spend, go (time, resources, etc.) (see usage notes)
    Synonym: kulua
    Hyllyn kokoamiseen meni tunnin verran.Assembling the shelf took an hour.
    Siihen olisi voinut mennä kaksikin tuntia.It could've taken two hours.
* to go (and [do]) [with illative of third infinitive] (do an action, implying that someone should be criticized for doing it)
    Miksi sinä menit sellaista tekemään?Why did you go and do that?
* to go, fit [with illative ‘in/into’]
    Synonyms: mahtua, sopia
    Montako litraa siihen menee?How many litres can you fit in it?(literally, “How many litres go in it?”)
* (colloquial) to do, be good enough
    Synonyms: käydä, menetellä
* (informal) to sell
    Synonyms: myydä, mennä kaupaksi

#### Usage notes

* (to be spent; take, pass, spend):
** This usage is intransitive and never receives a direct object. That which is spent is grammatically the subject despite it usually being placed after the verb, like in the usage examples above. The fact that it is a subject can be seen in that it exhibits the nominative case:
    Siihen meni tunti.It took an hour.
** In the first usage example, verran is used, and the verb thus neither has a subject nor an object.
** What the resources are spent on (the subject for take) is expressed in the illative case (for verbs, the illative case of the -minen or other action noun) and is often placed before the verb, as if it were a subject.
* The inessive form of the third infinitive is relatively seldom used, and the corresponding form of the noun meno are usually used instead, especially colloquially (i.e., menossa instead of menemässä).

#### Conjugation

Colloquially, the present stem mene- may be replaced in some forms with mee-:
Standard forms are shown before the colloquial forms for reference.
| Description | Standard | Colloquial |
| 1st sing. present indicative | menen | meen |
| 2nd sing. present indicative | menet | meet |
| 1st plur. present indicative * | menemme | meemme |
| 2nd plur. present indicative | menette | meette |
| present indicative connegative 2nd sing. imperative | mene | mee |
| Regularly derivable colloquial forms (e.g. through omission of final consonants) are not listed. |||

#### Derived terms

* edesmennä
* miehenmentävä
* ohimennen
* sivumennen
* meneillä
* menekki
* meneminen
* menijä
* mennyt
* meno
* mennä hukkaan (“to go to waste”)
* mennä kaupaksi (“to sell (well)”)
* mennä kihloihin (“to get engaged”)
* mennä manan majoille (“to pass away”)
* mennä naimisiin (“to get married”)
* mennä rikki (“to break down”)
* mennessä
* menehtyä
* menestyä
* menettää

### Further reading

* “mennä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Karelian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmenːæ/

### Verb

mennä
* Alternative form of männä

## Livvi
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mendäk. Cognates include Finnish mennä and Estonian minna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmenʲːæ/
* Hyphenation: men‧nä
* Rhymes: -enʲːæ

### Verb

mennä
* (intransitive) to go
* (intransitive) to leave
* (intransitive) to fit
* (intransitive, of time) to go by
* (intransitive, of animals) to die
* (intransitive, of foods) to become wasted

### References

* N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
* Tatjana Boiko (2019) “mennä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN