kolmonen
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kolmonen
- three (digit or figure 3)
- number three (anything that is third or with the number three)
- third gear
- trey (playing card or score three)
- triplet (one of a group of three babies born from the same mother during the same birth)
- (card games, in the plural) three of a kind (three cards of the same rank in one hand)
- (pesäpallo, baseball) third (third base)
Usage notes
In Finnish, three as a value or count of something is kolme, but in Finnish three as an attribute of something is kolmonen. Hence the bus number three is referred to as "kolmonen" and three as the face value of a die is also kolmonen, and so "three threes" in a dice game would be kolme kolmosta or kolmoskolmoset.
Declension
Inflection of kolmonen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kolmonen | kolmoset | |
genitive | kolmosen | kolmosten kolmosien | |
partitive | kolmosta | kolmosia | |
illative | kolmoseen | kolmosiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kolmonen | kolmoset | |
accusative | nom. | kolmonen | kolmoset |
gen. | kolmosen | ||
genitive | kolmosen | kolmosten kolmosien | |
partitive | kolmosta | kolmosia | |
inessive | kolmosessa | kolmosissa | |
elative | kolmosesta | kolmosista | |
illative | kolmoseen | kolmosiin | |
adessive | kolmosella | kolmosilla | |
ablative | kolmoselta | kolmosilta | |
allative | kolmoselle | kolmosille | |
essive | kolmosena | kolmosina | |
translative | kolmoseksi | kolmosiksi | |
abessive | kolmosetta | kolmositta | |
instructive | — | kolmosin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (three of a kind): kolme samaa
- (third base): kolmospesä
Coordinate terms
- (poker hand): hai, pari, kaksi paria, neljän suora, neljän väri, suora, väri, täyskäsi, neloset, viitoset, värisuora, kuningasvärisuora