Finnish

(index ek)

Verb

eksyä

1. (intransitive) to get lost, go astray, lose one's way.

   • Eksyin metsään.
     • I got lost in the forest.

Usage notes

• Eksyä is one of the Finnish verbs that, unlike their equivalents in most Indo-European languages, require a lative case, i.e. require the question “where ... to?” instead of “where?”. Thus, “Minä eksyin metsään” means literally “I got lost into the forest”. Similar verbs are e.g. eksyttää, hukkua, hukata, hukuttaa, kadota, kadottaa, hävitä, hävittää, saapua, jäädä, jättää and rakentaa. See also the verbs etsiä, löytää, löytyä, lukea and kuulla which require the question “where ... from?” instead of “where?” (Nähdä can be both a verb with an essive case (“where?”) and a verb requiring the question “where ... from?”.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• nouns: eksyminen, eksymä
• verbs: causative eksyttää

Anagrams

• äkeys