kerrostalo
Appearance
Finnish
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Etymology
[edit]kerros (“storey”) + talo (“house”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkerːosˌtɑlo/, [ˈk̟e̞rːo̞s̠ˌtɑ̝lo̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑlo
- Syllabification(key): ker‧ros‧ta‧lo
- Hyphenation(key): kerros‧talo
Noun
[edit]kerrostalo
- (multistorey) apartment building/block of flats
- Synonym: asuinkerrostalo
- Coordinate term: pientalo
- (loosely) multistorey building
Usage notes
[edit]In general, a residential building is a kerrostalo if the flats/apartments within it are located on top of one another, even partially, and especially if all of them are not necessarily accessible directly from the ground level; in other cases, the residential building counts as a pientalo (according to its broad definition).
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kerrostalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kerrostalo | kerrostalot | |
| genitive | kerrostalon | kerrostalojen | |
| partitive | kerrostaloa | kerrostaloja | |
| illative | kerrostaloon | kerrostaloihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kerrostalo | kerrostalot | |
| accusative | nom. | kerrostalo | kerrostalot |
| gen. | kerrostalon | ||
| genitive | kerrostalon | kerrostalojen | |
| partitive | kerrostaloa | kerrostaloja | |
| inessive | kerrostalossa | kerrostaloissa | |
| elative | kerrostalosta | kerrostaloista | |
| illative | kerrostaloon | kerrostaloihin | |
| adessive | kerrostalolla | kerrostaloilla | |
| ablative | kerrostalolta | kerrostaloilta | |
| allative | kerrostalolle | kerrostaloille | |
| essive | kerrostalona | kerrostaloina | |
| translative | kerrostaloksi | kerrostaloiksi | |
| abessive | kerrostalotta | kerrostaloitta | |
| instructive | — | kerrostaloin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kerrostalo”, 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
