IKEA
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See also: Ikea
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IKEA
- An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer.
- 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 126:
- Instruct the servant robot to clean the house, landscape the yard, and assemble several major pieces of IKEA furniture. Then, when your robot is power depleted and attempts to recharge, shut off the power to your house.
- 2008 February 2, Luke Burbank, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
- It seems Swedish gangs, apparently no longer satisfied with knocking over their local IKEA’s, have taken to sneaking little people into the cargo holds of the buses by stowing them in suitcases.
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international, originally Swedish retailer
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IKEA
Declension[edit]
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | IKEA | — |
| accusative | IKEA-t | — |
| dative | IKEA-nak | — |
| instrumental | IKEA-val | — |
| causal-final | IKEA-ért | — |
| translative | IKEA-vá | — |
| terminative | IKEA-ig | — |
| essive-formal | IKEA-ként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | IKEA-ban | — |
| superessive | IKEA-n | — |
| adessive | IKEA-nál | — |
| illative | IKEA-ba | — |
| sublative | IKEA-ra | — |
| allative | IKEA-hoz | — |
| elative | IKEA-ból | — |
| delative | IKEA-ról | — |
| ablative | IKEA-tól | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
IKEA-é | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
IKEA-éi | — |
| Possessive forms of IKEA | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | IKEA-m | — |
| 2nd person sing. | IKEA-d | — |
| 3rd person sing. | IKEA-ja | — |
| 1st person plural | IKEA-nk | — |
| 2nd person plural | IKEA-tok | — |
| 3rd person plural | IKEA-juk | — |
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The initials of the founder's name, Ingvar Kamprad, of his home village Elmtaryd (now spelled Älmtaryd), and of the nearby village Agunnaryd
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Proper noun[edit]
IKEA n (genitive IKEAs)
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