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fina

fina contraction: african-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action. Also the clipping of finasteride.

Contraction

fina

  1. (contraction) African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
    • 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.2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN
    • "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8

Proper noun capitalized: Fina

Fina (plural Finas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Also used as

fina is also the clipping of finasteride.

Forms of fina

pluralFinas

Origin of fina

Borrowed from Italian Fina.

Questions about fina

What does fina mean?
Fina means african-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
What part of speech is fina?
Fina can be a contraction or a proper noun.

Words near fina in the dictionary

  1. fin-like
  2. fin-tech
  3. fin-techs
  4. fin-toed
  5. fin.
  6. fina
  7. finable
  8. Finaghy
  9. finagle
  10. Finagle's law
  11. finagled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fina (page history and authors); Fina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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