jääkäriupseeri
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]jääkäri (“jaeger”) + upseeri (“officer”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈjæːkæriˌupseːri/, [ˈjæːk̟æriˌups̠e̞ːri]
- Rhymes: -upseːri
- Syllabification(key): jää‧kä‧ri‧up‧see‧ri
Noun
[edit]jääkäriupseeri
- An officer in the Finnish armed forces, who has also served in the 27th Jaeger Battalion of the German Army in WWI, consisting of Finnish volunteers who had secretly travelled to Germany in order to obtain military training, with the final aim of liberating Finland from the Russian rule.
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “jääkäriupseeri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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