kihlattu
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Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kihlattu
- betrothed; fiancée (female), fiancé (male) (person engaged to be married)
- Peruin häät, koska kihlattuni ei halunnut näyttää minulle pankkitiliään.
- I canceled the wedding, because my betrothed didn't want to show his bank account to me.
Usage notes
[edit]- This term is seldom used in plural; an engaged couple is kihlapari in Finnish.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kihlattu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kihlattu | kihlatut | ||
genitive | kihlatun | kihlattujen | ||
partitive | kihlattua | kihlattuja | ||
illative | kihlattuun | kihlattuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kihlattu | kihlatut | ||
accusative | nom. | kihlattu | kihlatut | |
gen. | kihlatun | |||
genitive | kihlatun | kihlattujen | ||
partitive | kihlattua | kihlattuja | ||
inessive | kihlatussa | kihlatuissa | ||
elative | kihlatusta | kihlatuista | ||
illative | kihlattuun | kihlattuihin | ||
adessive | kihlatulla | kihlatuilla | ||
ablative | kihlatulta | kihlatuilta | ||
allative | kihlatulle | kihlatuille | ||
essive | kihlattuna | kihlattuina | ||
translative | kihlatuksi | kihlatuiksi | ||
abessive | kihlatutta | kihlatuitta | ||
instructive | — | kihlatuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- kihlakumppani (esp. in legal context)
- morsian (“fiancée”), sulhanen (“fiancé”)
Participle
[edit]kihlattu
Verb
[edit]kihlattu
Further reading
[edit]- “kihlattu”, 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 2023-07-02