lumipesu
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]lumi (“snow”) + pesu (“wash”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lumipesu
- Act of cleansing something by rubbing it with snow.
- Act of abuse in which someone rubs the face of another person with snow, chiefly practiced between children who participate in a snowfight, or as an act of bullying.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of lumipesu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | lumipesu | lumipesut | |
genitive | lumipesun | lumipesujen | |
partitive | lumipesua | lumipesuja | |
illative | lumipesuun | lumipesuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lumipesu | lumipesut | |
accusative | nom. | lumipesu | lumipesut |
gen. | lumipesun | ||
genitive | lumipesun | lumipesujen | |
partitive | lumipesua | lumipesuja | |
inessive | lumipesussa | lumipesuissa | |
elative | lumipesusta | lumipesuista | |
illative | lumipesuun | lumipesuihin | |
adessive | lumipesulla | lumipesuilla | |
ablative | lumipesulta | lumipesuilta | |
allative | lumipesulle | lumipesuille | |
essive | lumipesuna | lumipesuina | |
translative | lumipesuksi | lumipesuiksi | |
abessive | lumipesutta | lumipesuitta | |
instructive | — | lumipesuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “lumipesu”, 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 2023-07-03