kirkonrotta
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
kirkon (“of church”) + rotta (“rat”); identical in formation to Swedish kyrkråtta, so probably a calque in one direction or another
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kirkonrotta
- A children's game; variant of hide and seek that has a "home base" the seeker must return to in order to tag players, but if any hiding players reach the home base first, they are considered safe; often caught players can also be rescued by any such players.
- churchmouse, church mouse (very poor person, chiefly in similes)
- köyhä kuin kirkonrotta
- poor as a church mouse
Declension[edit]
Inflection of kirkonrotta (Kotus type 10*C/koira, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kirkonrotta | kirkonrotat | ||
genitive | kirkonrotan | kirkonrottien | ||
partitive | kirkonrottaa | kirkonrottia | ||
illative | kirkonrottaan | kirkonrottiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kirkonrotta | kirkonrotat | ||
accusative | nom. | kirkonrotta | kirkonrotat | |
gen. | kirkonrotan | |||
genitive | kirkonrotan | kirkonrottien kirkonrottainrare | ||
partitive | kirkonrottaa | kirkonrottia | ||
inessive | kirkonrotassa | kirkonrotissa | ||
elative | kirkonrotasta | kirkonrotista | ||
illative | kirkonrottaan | kirkonrottiin | ||
adessive | kirkonrotalla | kirkonrotilla | ||
ablative | kirkonrotalta | kirkonrotilta | ||
allative | kirkonrotalle | kirkonrotille | ||
essive | kirkonrottana | kirkonrottina | ||
translative | kirkonrotaksi | kirkonrotiksi | ||
abessive | kirkonrotatta | kirkonrotitta | ||
instructive | — | kirkonrotin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- “kirkonrotta”, 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 2023-07-02