kortteli
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kortteli
- block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets)
- Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.
- I'm just going for a walk around the block.
- (in compounds) local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city)
- korttelikuppila ― the neighbourhood pub
- block (distance from one street to another in a city)
- (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters
- Synonym: vaaksa
- (historical) Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters
- (historical) unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters
- (dialectal, dated) mug of roughly this volume
Declension[edit]
Inflection of kortteli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kortteli | korttelit | ||
genitive | korttelin | korttelien kortteleiden kortteleitten | ||
partitive | korttelia | kortteleita kortteleja | ||
illative | kortteliin | kortteleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kortteli | korttelit | ||
accusative | nom. | kortteli | korttelit | |
gen. | korttelin | |||
genitive | korttelin | korttelien kortteleiden kortteleitten | ||
partitive | korttelia | kortteleita kortteleja | ||
inessive | korttelissa | kortteleissa | ||
elative | korttelista | kortteleista | ||
illative | kortteliin | kortteleihin | ||
adessive | korttelilla | kortteleilla | ||
ablative | korttelilta | kortteleilta | ||
allative | korttelille | kortteleille | ||
essive | korttelina | kortteleina | ||
translative | kortteliksi | kortteleiksi | ||
abessive | korttelitta | kortteleitta | ||
instructive | — | korttelein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
- (distance btw. streets): kadunväli
- (Russian unit of length): setvertti, venäläinen kortteli
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
Further reading[edit]
- “kortteli”, 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
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- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Finnish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːeli
- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːeli/3 syllables
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