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Meaning of -mme | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B1
/-mːe/

Määritelmät

  1. Forms the first-person plural of verbs.
    morpheme, personal
  2. First-person plural possessive suffix used with or without meidän (genitive of the personal pronoun me): our
    morpheme, possessive
  3. Appended to a genitive-requiring postposition that is after or without meidän: us
    morpheme, possessive
  4. Used in a participle structure replacing an että clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "we"; appended to the active present participle in genitive singular when the action is concurrent with the main clause.
    morpheme, possessive
  5. Used in a participle structure replacing an että clause, preceded by a verb expressing e.g. telling, claiming, asserting, confirming, thinking, wish, desire, seeming, when the clauses have the same subject "we"; appended to the active past participle in genitive singular when the said/alleged (etc.) action antedates the main clause.
    morpheme, possessive
  6. Used in a shortened sentence expressing concurrent actions when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the inessive of the active second infinitive.
    morpheme, possessive
  7. Used in a shortened sentence expressing subsequent actions when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the partitive of the passive past participle singular.
    morpheme, possessive
  8. Used in a final shortened sentence expressing "in order to do" when the clauses have the same subject "we", appended to the long first infinitive.
    morpheme, possessive
  9. Used in some adverbs, when the clause has the subject "we".
    morpheme, possessive
  10. Always appended to a noun in the comitative case when the clause has the subject "we".
    morpheme, possessive

Vastineet

English the

Esimerkit

“Me olemme lääkäreitä.”

We are doctors.

“(meidän) kirjamme”

our book

“(meidän) edessämme”

in front of us

“(meidän) takanamme”

behind us

“Sanoimme tekevämme läksyjämme.”

We said that we were doing our homework.

“Väitimme tehneemme läksyjämme.”

We claimed to have been doing our homework.

“Tehdessämme läksyjämme (me) kuulimme laukauksen ulkoa.”

(While) doing our homework, we heard a shot from outside.

“Tehtyämme läksymme (me) kuulimme laukauksen ulkoa.”

(After) having done / After doing our homework, we heard a shot from outside.

“Tehdäksemme läksymme hyvin (me) menimme hiljaiseen huoneeseen.”

(In order) to do our homework well, we went into a quiet room.

“Olemme hyvin pahoillamme siitä.”

We are very sorry about it.

“Kävelimme kirjoinemme ovesta ulos.”

We walked with our books out the door.

CEFR-taso

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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