uhalla

• IPA^(key): /ˈuhɑlːɑ/, [ˈuɦɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uhɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): u‧hal‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): uhal‧la

uhalla

1. adessive singular of uhka

uhalla

1. at the risk of, on pain of [with genitive]

   Tyhmältä kuulostamisen uhalla, miten se toimii?

   Silläkin uhalla, että kuulostan tyhmältä, miten se toimii?

   At the risk of sounding stupid, how does it work?

2. urged or forced by (someone), under threat [with genitive and/or possessive form]
   1. (figuratively) for kicks, because one feels like it (when the person urging is the same as the person doing that action)

• (at the risk of, on pain of): Can also be used with a relative clause, in which case the word is preceded by sillä, the adessive singular of the demonstrative pronoun se; it is inflected in the adessive to align with uhalla, which is considered an adessive form.

Possessive suffixes are only used in the sense “urged or forced by”, and are optional even then.

• “uhalla”, 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

• haallu