kaamos
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Northern Sami skábma, from Norwegian skamtid.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɑːmos/, [ˈkɑ̝ːmo̞s̠]
- Rhymes: -ɑːmos
- Syllabification(key): kaa‧mos
- Hyphenation(key): kaa‧mos
Noun
[edit]kaamos
- polar night (period of darkness north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle when the sun does not rise over the horizon)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kaamos (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kaamos | kaamokset | |
| genitive | kaamoksen | kaamosten kaamoksien | |
| partitive | kaamosta | kaamoksia | |
| illative | kaamokseen | kaamoksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kaamos | kaamokset | |
| accusative | nom. | kaamos | kaamokset |
| gen. | kaamoksen | ||
| genitive | kaamoksen | kaamosten kaamoksien | |
| partitive | kaamosta | kaamoksia | |
| inessive | kaamoksessa | kaamoksissa | |
| elative | kaamoksesta | kaamoksista | |
| illative | kaamokseen | kaamoksiin | |
| adessive | kaamoksella | kaamoksilla | |
| ablative | kaamokselta | kaamoksilta | |
| allative | kaamokselle | kaamoksille | |
| essive | kaamoksena | kaamoksina | |
| translative | kaamokseksi | kaamoksiksi | |
| abessive | kaamoksetta | kaamoksitta | |
| instructive | — | kaamoksin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kaamos”, 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 2 July 2023
