fossiili
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see French fossile), ultimately from Latin fossilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fossiili
- A fossil (both scientific and metaphorical).
Declension
[edit]Inflection of fossiili (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | fossiili | fossiilit | ||
genitive | fossiilin | fossiilien fossiileiden fossiileitten | ||
partitive | fossiilia | fossiileita fossiileja | ||
illative | fossiiliin | fossiileihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | fossiili | fossiilit | ||
accusative | nom. | fossiili | fossiilit | |
gen. | fossiilin | |||
genitive | fossiilin | fossiilien fossiileiden fossiileitten | ||
partitive | fossiilia | fossiileita fossiileja | ||
inessive | fossiilissa | fossiileissa | ||
elative | fossiilista | fossiileista | ||
illative | fossiiliin | fossiileihin | ||
adessive | fossiililla | fossiileilla | ||
ablative | fossiililta | fossiileilta | ||
allative | fossiilille | fossiileille | ||
essive | fossiilina | fossiileina | ||
translative | fossiiliksi | fossiileiksi | ||
abessive | fossiilitta | fossiileitta | ||
instructive | — | fossiilein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “fossiili”, 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