pihti
Finnish
Noun
pihti
- (archaic) Any two-pronged handtool or artifact to hold, press together or punch something, now usually in plural; a pincer.
- (in the plural) pliers, tongs etc., see pihdit
- State of being stuck between something, as if held with pliers.
- Vene on kahden kiven pihdissä.
- The boat is stuck between two rocks.
- Vene on kahden kiven pihdissä.
- The front claw of a crustacean such as lobster, pincer.
- A pile of birchbark sheets set between two boards and tied tightly together to flatten the barks and thus make them suitable roofing and isolation material.
- Pihdissä on normaalisti noin sata tuohiliuskaa.
- One pihti normally consists of about one hundred sheets of birchbark.
- Pihdissä on normaalisti noin sata tuohiliuskaa.
- (gymnastics) scissors
- Used as modifier in compound terms to indicate similarity to or use of pliers, see list below.
Declension
Inflection of pihti (Kotus type 5*F/risti, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pihti | pihdit | ||
genitive | pihdin | pihtien | ||
partitive | pihtiä | pihtejä | ||
illative | pihtiin | pihteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pihti | pihdit | ||
accusative | nom. | pihti | pihdit | |
gen. | pihdin | |||
genitive | pihdin | pihtien | ||
partitive | pihtiä | pihtejä | ||
inessive | pihdissä | pihdeissä | ||
elative | pihdistä | pihdeistä | ||
illative | pihtiin | pihteihin | ||
adessive | pihdillä | pihdeillä | ||
ablative | pihdiltä | pihdeiltä | ||
allative | pihdille | pihdeille | ||
essive | pihtinä | pihteinä | ||
translative | pihdiksi | pihdeiksi | ||
abessive | pihdittä | pihdeittä | ||
instructive | — | pihdein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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See also pihdit