nuuska
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely a back-formation from nuuskia, further influenced by Swedish snus (“snuff tobacco”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuuska
- snuff (tobacco), snus
- (idiomatic) splinters, wreck; together with the adverb tuusan as fortifier used in two expressions
- olla tuusan nuuskana
- to be totally wrecked
- mennä tuusan nuuskaksi
- to become totally wrecked
- olla tuusan nuuskana
Declension
[edit]Inflection of nuuska (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | nuuska | nuuskat | ||
genitive | nuuskan | nuuskien | ||
partitive | nuuskaa | nuuskia | ||
illative | nuuskaan | nuuskiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | nuuska | nuuskat | ||
accusative | nom. | nuuska | nuuskat | |
gen. | nuuskan | |||
genitive | nuuskan | nuuskien nuuskain rare | ||
partitive | nuuskaa | nuuskia | ||
inessive | nuuskassa | nuuskissa | ||
elative | nuuskasta | nuuskista | ||
illative | nuuskaan | nuuskiin | ||
adessive | nuuskalla | nuuskilla | ||
ablative | nuuskalta | nuuskilta | ||
allative | nuuskalle | nuuskille | ||
essive | nuuskana | nuuskina | ||
translative | nuuskaksi | nuuskiksi | ||
abessive | nuuskatta | nuuskitta | ||
instructive | — | nuuskin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nuuska”, 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 2023-07-03