leikkiä

== Finnish == === Etymology 1 === leikki (“play”) +‎ -iä ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈlei̯kːiæˣ/, [ˈle̞i̯kːiæ(ʔ)] Rhymes: -eikːiæ Syllabification(key): leik‧ki‧ä Hyphenation(key): leik‧kiä ==== Verb ==== leikkiä to play (act in a manner such that one has fun) to play with, treat like a toy [with adessive] Ruoalla ei saa leikkiä! ― No playing with food! to play (to give an appearance of being, contrary to fact) Synonyms: näytellä, tekeytyä to pretend (assume something is true for the sake of argument) Synonym: teeskennellä ===== Usage notes ===== leikkiä is used for "children's play", or "playing around", i.e. play that generally has no rules or set objectives, whereas the verb for playing organized and rule-bound games is pelata. Likewise, the noun leikki denotes "children's games" and peli organized games with rules. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== näytellä pelata soittaa ==== Further reading ==== “leikkiä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023 === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈlei̯kːiæ/, [ˈle̞i̯kːiæ] Rhymes: -eikːiæ Syllabification(key): leik‧ki‧ä Hyphenation(key): leik‧kiä ==== Noun ==== leikkiä partitive singular of leikki ===== Related terms ===== leikki, leikitellä