kantti
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish kant (“edge”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɑntːi/, [ˈkɑ̝n̪t̪ːi]
- Rhymes: -ɑntːi
- Syllabification(key): kant‧ti
- Hyphenation(key): kant‧ti
Noun
[edit]kantti (informal)
- edge
- Synonym: särmä
- Puutarha on pieni, vain kymmenen metriä kanttiinsa.
- The garden is small, only ten metres by ten.
- chutzpah; the courage, guts, balls, nerve or audacity to go through with something
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kantti (Kotus type 5*C/risti, tt–t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kantti | kantit | |
| genitive | kantin | kanttien | |
| partitive | kanttia | kantteja | |
| illative | kanttiin | kantteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kantti | kantit | |
| accusative | nom. | kantti | kantit |
| gen. | kantin | ||
| genitive | kantin | kanttien | |
| partitive | kanttia | kantteja | |
| inessive | kantissa | kanteissa | |
| elative | kantista | kanteista | |
| illative | kanttiin | kantteihin | |
| adessive | kantilla | kanteilla | |
| ablative | kantilta | kanteilta | |
| allative | kantille | kanteille | |
| essive | kanttina | kantteina | |
| translative | kantiksi | kanteiksi | |
| abessive | kantitta | kanteitta | |
| instructive | — | kantein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kantti”, 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
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑntːi
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- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish terms with collocations
- Finnish risti-type nominals