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kauaa, Unclassified particle, lexical feature for undecided particles
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kauaa

kauaa

kauaa

Unclassified particle, lexical feature for undecided particles

kauaa

Adverb
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(with negative) for a long time, for long Fin:En aio olla kauaa täällä.Eng:I'm not planning to be here for long. Show more arrow right Used as the negative form of kauan, although kauan can also be used in negative sentences, in which the two are synonymous. kauan is more common in literary or formal text, while kauaa is more common in informal text and was once considered nonstandard. Both forms can also be seen in questions, in which case there is a difference in nuance: Aiotko olla kauan täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (neutral)Aiotko olla kauaa täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (implying expectation or wish for the answer to be negative) Compare also: Aiotko olla pitkään täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (neutral, somewhat more common than "kauan" in questions) Show more arrow right Partitive of kauka- (see kauko-); compare kauan. Show more arrow right
for long
long
very long
too long
long before
Show more arrow right OpenSubtitles2018.v3; Europarl Parallel Corpus, sentence 39524.; Tatoeba Parallel Corpus, sentence 1588320. Et kauaa. Not long, Sam. Hän oli kauaa poissa kotoa. He was away for a long time from home. En ole kauaa. I won't be long. Tämä ei vie kauaa. Oh, this isn't gonna take long. En ehdi puhua kauaa. Well, I don't have much time. Siinä ei mene kauaa. Won't take long. Ei siinä kauaa mene. It shouldn't be too long. Ei tähän mene kauaa. It won't take long. Kauaa sitten hukattu pelitilaisuus. A lost gaming opportunity long ago. Siihen ei mene kauaa. It won't take long. Show more arrow right

Wiktionary

(with negative) for a long time, for long Fin:En aio olla kauaa täällä.Eng:I'm not planning to be here for long. Show more arrow right Used as the negative form of kauan, although kauan can also be used in negative sentences, in which the two are synonymous. kauan is more common in literary or formal text, while kauaa is more common in informal text and was once considered nonstandard. Both forms can also be seen in questions, in which case there is a difference in nuance: Aiotko olla kauan täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (neutral)Aiotko olla kauaa täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (implying expectation or wish for the answer to be negative) Compare also: Aiotko olla pitkään täällä?Are you going to be here for a long time? (neutral, somewhat more common than "kauan" in questions) Show more arrow right Partitive of kauka- (see kauko-); compare kauan. Show more arrow right
for long
long
very long
too long
long before
Show more arrow right OpenSubtitles2018.v3; Europarl Parallel Corpus, sentence 39524.; Tatoeba Parallel Corpus, sentence 1588320. Et kauaa. Not long, Sam. Hän oli kauaa poissa kotoa. He was away for a long time from home. En ole kauaa. I won't be long. Tämä ei vie kauaa. Oh, this isn't gonna take long. En ehdi puhua kauaa. Well, I don't have much time. Siinä ei mene kauaa. Won't take long. Ei siinä kauaa mene. It shouldn't be too long. Ei tähän mene kauaa. It won't take long. Kauaa sitten hukattu pelitilaisuus. A lost gaming opportunity long ago. Siihen ei mene kauaa. It won't take long. Show more arrow right Create new exercises Report an issue Exercises Solved!
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