salkku
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *salkku. Related to Ingrian salkku and Karelian salkku. Originally probably meant "bag, bundle".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]salkku
- briefcase, portfolio (case for carrying documents)
- (business) portfolio Ellipsis of arvopaperisalkku (“securities portfolio”).
- (government) portfolio (position and responsibilities of a cabinet minister)
- salkuton ministeri ― minister without portfolio
- (computing) briefcase (a discontinued special folder type in Microsoft Windows)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of salkku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | salkku | salkut | ||
genitive | salkun | salkkujen | ||
partitive | salkkua | salkkuja | ||
illative | salkkuun | salkkuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | salkku | salkut | ||
accusative | nom. | salkku | salkut | |
gen. | salkun | |||
genitive | salkun | salkkujen | ||
partitive | salkkua | salkkuja | ||
inessive | salkussa | salkuissa | ||
elative | salkusta | salkuista | ||
illative | salkkuun | salkkuihin | ||
adessive | salkulla | salkuilla | ||
ablative | salkulta | salkuilta | ||
allative | salkulle | salkuille | ||
essive | salkkuna | salkkuina | ||
translative | salkuksi | salkuiksi | ||
abessive | salkutta | salkuitta | ||
instructive | — | salkuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “salkku”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlkːu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlkːu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Business
- Finnish ellipses
- fi:Government
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- fi:Computing
- Finnish valo-type nominals