kostea
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to kostaa + -ea. Sense contaminated by the family of kastaa; see kostua for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkosteɑ/, [ˈko̞s̠te̞ɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -osteɑ
- Syllabification(key): kos‧te‧a
- Hyphenation(key): kos‧tea
Adjective
[edit]kostea (comparative kosteampi, superlative kostein)
- moist, humid, damp, wet (with high humidity or some liquid, but not completely impregnated)
- (of an event, period etc.) boozy (involving large consumption of alcohol)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kostea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kostea | kosteat | |
| genitive | kostean | kosteiden kosteitten | |
| partitive | kosteaa kosteata |
kosteita | |
| illative | kosteaan | kosteisiin kosteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kostea | kosteat | |
| accusative | nom. | kostea | kosteat |
| gen. | kostean | ||
| genitive | kostean | kosteiden kosteitten kosteain rare | |
| partitive | kosteaa kosteata |
kosteita | |
| inessive | kosteassa | kosteissa | |
| elative | kosteasta | kosteista | |
| illative | kosteaan | kosteisiin kosteihin | |
| adessive | kostealla | kosteilla | |
| ablative | kostealta | kosteilta | |
| allative | kostealle | kosteille | |
| essive | kosteana | kosteina | |
| translative | kosteaksi | kosteiksi | |
| abessive | kosteatta | kosteitta | |
| instructive | — | kostein | |
| comitative | — | kosteine | |
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kostea”, 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