poissa

Finnish

The inessive singular of poikki-, through earlier and dialectal poijessa, poiessa (< *poige-ssa). See pois for details on development.

poissa (not comparable)

(static) absent, gone, not there/here, away
Hän on poissa.
S/he is gone. (cf. pois)
out of, away from [with elative]
Poissa silmistä, poissa mielestä.
Out of sight, out of mind.
(euphemistic) dead
Synonyms: see kuollut

Declension of poikki-

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	poikki-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	pois poikki	–
inessive	poissa	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	–	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	poikitse	–
essive	–	–	situative	poikittain	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
abessive	–	–
instructive	–	poikin
comitative	–	–

poissa