perso
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
perso (accusative singular person, plural persoj, accusative plural persojn)
- Persian (a member of the Persian ethnic group)
Finnish
Adjective
perso (comparative persompi, superlative persoin)
- greedy for something
- Nalle Puh on perso hunajalle.
- Winnie the Pooh is greedy for honey.
- Nalle Puh on perso hunajalle.
- The noun sweet tooth may be used when the greed is for sweet things in general.
- Olen todella perso makealle.
- I'm a real sweet tooth.
- Olen todella perso makealle.
Usage notes
The word perso is seldom used without specifying a specific object for which someone is greedy. The structure is:
- perso + (allative) = greedy + (for something)
Declension
Inflection of perso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | perso | persot | |
genitive | person | persojen | |
partitive | persoa | persoja | |
illative | persoon | persoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | perso | persot | |
accusative | nom. | perso | persot |
gen. | person | ||
genitive | person | persojen | |
partitive | persoa | persoja | |
inessive | persossa | persoissa | |
elative | persosta | persoista | |
illative | persoon | persoihin | |
adessive | persolla | persoilla | |
ablative | persolta | persoilta | |
allative | persolle | persoille | |
essive | persona | persoina | |
translative | persoksi | persoiksi | |
abessive | persotta | persoitta | |
instructive | — | persoin | |
comitative | — | persoine |
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
perso (plural persos)
- (colloquial) personal
- (colloquial) one's own
- T’as une voiture perso? ― Do you have your own car?
Etymology 2
Adverb
perso
- (colloquial) personally (in one's own opinion)
- Perso, je suis contre l’avortement. ― Personally, I am against abortion.
Etymology 3
Apocope of personnage.
Noun
perso m (plural persos)
- (video games) character
- 2001, Laurent Trémel, Jeux de rôles, jeux vidéo, multimédia. Les faiseurs de mondes, Presses universitaires de France (publ.), page 158.
- Mon voisin craignait de perdre son “perso” (personnage) – “Huls” – un pisteur qu’il chouchoutait depuis quatre ans.
- My neighbor feared losing his character - "Huls" - a tracker he had pampered for four years.
- 2001, Laurent Trémel, Jeux de rôles, jeux vidéo, multimédia. Les faiseurs de mondes, Presses universitaires de France (publ.), page 158.
Anagrams
Further reading
- “perso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Verb
perso
Synonyms
Adjective
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