mielellään
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== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
The adessive singular of mieli (mielellä) with a possessive suffix.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈmie̯lelːæːn/, [ˈmie̞̯le̞lːæːn]
Rhymes: -ielelːæːn
Syllabification(key): mie‧lel‧lään
Hyphenation(key): mie‧lel‧lään
=== Adverb ===
mielellään (comparative mieluummin, superlative mieluiten)
gladly, willingly, with pleasure
preferably, rather (often with saada in the conditional mood and an infinitive)
==== Usage notes ====
Note that the comparative and superlative forms are in fact forms of the synonymous adverb mieluusti; mielellään itself has no such forms.
==== Inflection ====
mielellään is inflected according to the person it refers to. In colloquial Finnish, this is not always observed: *Autan sinua mielellään is not uncommon, but is considered nonstandard and ungrammatical.
==== Synonyms ====
ilomielin
kernaasti
mieluusti
=== See also ===
mielissään
=== Further reading ===
“mielellään”, 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 3 July 2023