fina
English
    
    Alternative forms
    
- see fixing to
Contraction
    
fina
- African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
-  2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:- I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
 
-  2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:- "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
 
-  2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:- Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
 
-  2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:- "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"
 
 
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References
    
- fina', The Rice University Neologisms Database
Asturian
    
    
Catalan
    
    
Esperanto
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈfina]
- Audio: (file) 
- Rhymes: -ina
- Hyphenation: fin‧a
Galician
    
    
Italian
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.na/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Hyphenation: fì‧na
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /²fiː.nɑ/
Adjective
    
fina
- (dialectal, nonstandard since 1901) weak feminine/neuter singular of fin
-  1980, Moe, Ingvar, Sommaren te Ingebjerr, Oslo: Samlaget, page 11:- Ingebjerr tåtte det va så kjekt atte noken vilde høyra om alt det fina og løgna som o hadde gjort på denna sommaren.- Ingebjerr was delighted that someone would hear about all the nice and funny things she had been doing this summer.
 
 
 
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- (obsolete, nonstandard since 1901) strong feminine plural of fin
-  1974 [1850], Vang, Andris, “Den forgjyltø skog”, in Gamla reglo å rispo ifrå Valdris, Universitetsforlaget, page 11:- Å dæ æ tvær fina jamfrjugo, so bea um huus i nat, sa dei.- And there are two fair virgins, who ask for lodging tonight, said they.
 
 
 
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Old English
    
    Etymology
    
Unknown.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.nɑ/
Declension
    
Synonyms
    
Portuguese
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfĩ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.na/
 
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfi.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: fi‧na
Verb
    
fina
- inflection of finar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
 
Spanish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈfina/ [ˈfi.na]
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: fi‧na
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