postimestari
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]posti + mestari, from Swedish postmästare (“postmaster”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpostiˌmestɑri/, [ˈpo̞s̠tiˌme̞s̠tɑ̝ri]
- Rhymes: -estɑri
- Syllabification(key): pos‧ti‧mes‧ta‧ri
Noun
[edit]postimestari
- (archaic) postmaster (head of a post office)
- an honorary title of the fourteenth rank granted by the President of Finland to merited people who work or worked for the post office
Declension
[edit]Inflection of postimestari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | postimestari | postimestarit | |
genitive | postimestarin | postimestarien postimestareiden postimestareitten | |
partitive | postimestaria | postimestareita postimestareja | |
illative | postimestariin | postimestareihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | postimestari | postimestarit | |
accusative | nom. | postimestari | postimestarit |
gen. | postimestarin | ||
genitive | postimestarin | postimestarien postimestareiden postimestareitten | |
partitive | postimestaria | postimestareita postimestareja | |
inessive | postimestarissa | postimestareissa | |
elative | postimestarista | postimestareista | |
illative | postimestariin | postimestareihin | |
adessive | postimestarilla | postimestareilla | |
ablative | postimestarilta | postimestareilta | |
allative | postimestarille | postimestareille | |
essive | postimestarina | postimestareina | |
translative | postimestariksi | postimestareiksi | |
abessive | postimestaritta | postimestareitta | |
instructive | — | postimestarein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “postimestari”, 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