pientalo
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pien- (“small”) + talo (“house”); originally zoning terminology, but is now in widespread use.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pientalo
- (broadly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), including detached houses, terraced houses, etc., but not blocks of flats or apartment buildings
- Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”), ketjutalo (“link-detached house, linked house”), rivitalo (“terrace[d house(s)] (on a shared lot)”), kaupunkipientalo (“terrace[d house(s)] on separate lots”)
- Coordinate term: kerrostalo
- (strictly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), with at most two houses linked together
- Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”)
- (informal) A small residential building, small house, bungalow.
Usage notes[edit]
Tilastokeskus (“Statistics Finland”) adheres to the strict definition above.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of pientalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pientalo | pientalot | ||
genitive | pientalon | pientalojen | ||
partitive | pientaloa | pientaloja | ||
illative | pientaloon | pientaloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pientalo | pientalot | ||
accusative | nom. | pientalo | pientalot | |
gen. | pientalon | |||
genitive | pientalon | pientalojen | ||
partitive | pientaloa | pientaloja | ||
inessive | pientalossa | pientaloissa | ||
elative | pientalosta | pientaloista | ||
illative | pientaloon | pientaloihin | ||
adessive | pientalolla | pientaloilla | ||
ablative | pientalolta | pientaloilta | ||
allative | pientalolle | pientaloille | ||
essive | pientalona | pientaloina | ||
translative | pientaloksi | pientaloiksi | ||
abessive | pientalotta | pientaloitta | ||
instructive | — | pientaloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pientalo”, 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