povitasku
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
povi (“breast”) + tasku (“pocket”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
povitasku
- inside pocket, inside jacket pocket (pocket inside of a jacket)
Usage notes[edit]
- The word for "breast pocket", i.e. a pocket over one's breast outside the jacket or other garment is formed in Finnish with another word for breast, see rintatasku.
- The Finnish word for a pocket which is inside the garment in an unspecified place is sisätasku (“inner pocket, inside pocket”).
Declension[edit]
Inflection of povitasku (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | povitasku | povitaskut | ||
genitive | povitaskun | povitaskujen | ||
partitive | povitaskua | povitaskuja | ||
illative | povitaskuun | povitaskuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | povitasku | povitaskut | ||
accusative | nom. | povitasku | povitaskut | |
gen. | povitaskun | |||
genitive | povitaskun | povitaskujen | ||
partitive | povitaskua | povitaskuja | ||
inessive | povitaskussa | povitaskuissa | ||
elative | povitaskusta | povitaskuista | ||
illative | povitaskuun | povitaskuihin | ||
adessive | povitaskulla | povitaskuilla | ||
ablative | povitaskulta | povitaskuilta | ||
allative | povitaskulle | povitaskuille | ||
essive | povitaskuna | povitaskuina | ||
translative | povitaskuksi | povitaskuiksi | ||
abessive | povitaskutta | povitaskuitta | ||
instructive | — | povitaskuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading[edit]
- “povitasku”, 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