abielupaar
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abielu + paar, calque of German Ehepaar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abielupaar (genitive abielupaari, partitive abielupaari)
- married couple
- 2005, Laur Vallikivi, Arktika nomaadid šamanismi ja kristluse vahel: Jamb-to neenetsite pöördumine baptismi[1], University of Tartu Press, →ISBN, page 79:
- 34 ristitu seas on 8 abielupaari, kes võtsid ristimise vastu paaridena. Neist kaks paari on vanemaealised (üle 55), kolm keskealised (keskmiselt u 40) ja kolm nooremad (alla 30). Lisaks neile on sõlmitud noorte usklike vahel kaks abielu.
- Among the 34 baptized are 8 married couples who received baptism together as couples. Of these, two couples are elderly (over 55), three are middle-aged (averaging about 40), and three are younger (under 30). In addition to them, two marriages have been entered into between young believers.
Usage notes
[edit]Non-native speakers often have difficulty distinguishing between the meanings of abieluinimene, abielupaar, and abielurahvas.
- Abieluinimene refers to a single individual who is married.
- Abielupaar refers to a specific unit of two people who are married to each other.
- Abielurahvas is a more collective or slightly informal/old-fashioned term, refering to "married people" as a group or class of people.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of abielupaar (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | abielupaar | abielupaarid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | abielupaari | ||
| genitive | abielupaaride | ||
| partitive | abielupaari | abielupaare abielupaarisid | |
| illative | abielupaari abielupaarisse |
abielupaaridesse abielupaaresse | |
| inessive | abielupaaris | abielupaarides abielupaares | |
| elative | abielupaarist | abielupaaridest abielupaarest | |
| allative | abielupaarile | abielupaaridele abielupaarele | |
| adessive | abielupaaril | abielupaaridel abielupaarel | |
| ablative | abielupaarilt | abielupaaridelt abielupaarelt | |
| translative | abielupaariks | abielupaarideks abielupaareks | |
| terminative | abielupaarini | abielupaarideni | |
| essive | abielupaarina | abielupaaridena | |
| abessive | abielupaarita | abielupaarideta | |
| comitative | abielupaariga | abielupaaridega | |
Further reading
[edit]- “abielupaar”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “abielupaar”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- “abielupaar”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- Asta Õim (2007), “abielupaar”, in [SYS] Sünonüümisõnastik [Synonym Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
- abielupaar in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “abielupaar”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN