vilunki
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of filunki.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vilunki (colloquial)
- cheating, a scam, prank, joke, fiddle, minor fraud
- tehdä vilunkia ― to fiddle (UK), scam (US)
- prankster, swindler, fraudster
- workaround, fiddle (adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw)
- Se parametrin asetus on vain vilunki, jolla saadaan valaistus näyttämään oikealta.
- That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of vilunki (Kotus type 5*G/risti, nk-ng gradation) | ||||
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nominative | vilunki | vilungit | ||
genitive | vilungin | vilunkien | ||
partitive | vilunkia | vilunkeja | ||
illative | vilunkiin | vilunkeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | vilunki | vilungit | ||
accusative | nom. | vilunki | vilungit | |
gen. | vilungin | |||
genitive | vilungin | vilunkien | ||
partitive | vilunkia | vilunkeja | ||
inessive | vilungissa | vilungeissa | ||
elative | vilungista | vilungeista | ||
illative | vilunkiin | vilunkeihin | ||
adessive | vilungilla | vilungeilla | ||
ablative | vilungilta | vilungeilta | ||
allative | vilungille | vilungeille | ||
essive | vilunkina | vilunkeina | ||
translative | vilungiksi | vilungeiksi | ||
abessive | vilungitta | vilungeitta | ||
instructive | — | vilungein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
- (minor scam, prank): filunki, puijaus, vedätys, vilunkipeli
- (adjustment): viritys
Further reading[edit]
- “vilunki”, 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 2023-07-04