omakotitalo
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Finnish
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Etymology
[edit]oma (“own”) + koti (“home”) + talo (“house”); from the name (Omakoti) of a housing programme founded in 1927
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈomɑˌkotiˌtɑlo/, [ˈo̞mɑ̝ˌko̞t̪iˌt̪ɑ̝lo̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑlo
- Syllabification(key): o‧ma‧ko‧ti‧ta‧lo
Noun
[edit]omakotitalo
- detached house (especially UK, Canada, Australia), single-family home (US), separate house (New Zealand) (a free-standing residential building)
- Hypernym: pientalo
- Coordinate terms: erillistalo, ketjutalo, paritalo, rivitalo, kaupunkipientalo
Declension
[edit]Inflection of omakotitalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | omakotitalo | omakotitalot | |
genitive | omakotitalon | omakotitalojen | |
partitive | omakotitaloa | omakotitaloja | |
illative | omakotitaloon | omakotitaloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | omakotitalo | omakotitalot | |
accusative | nom. | omakotitalo | omakotitalot |
gen. | omakotitalon | ||
genitive | omakotitalon | omakotitalojen | |
partitive | omakotitaloa | omakotitaloja | |
inessive | omakotitalossa | omakotitaloissa | |
elative | omakotitalosta | omakotitaloista | |
illative | omakotitaloon | omakotitaloihin | |
adessive | omakotitalolla | omakotitaloilla | |
ablative | omakotitalolta | omakotitaloilta | |
allative | omakotitalolle | omakotitaloille | |
essive | omakotitalona | omakotitaloina | |
translative | omakotitaloksi | omakotitaloiksi | |
abessive | omakotitalotta | omakotitaloitta | |
instructive | — | omakotitaloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “omakotitalo”, 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