rippipuku
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]rippi (“confirmation”) + puku (“suit, dress”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rippipuku
- Literally, the suit a young man wears in his confirmation (sense: sacrament).
- A man's first suit; often used mockingly of a suit that is too small for the wearer.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rippipuku (Kotus type 1*M/valo, k-v gradation) | |||
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nominative | rippipuku | rippipuvut | |
genitive | rippipuvun | rippipukujen | |
partitive | rippipukua | rippipukuja | |
illative | rippipukuun | rippipukuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rippipuku | rippipuvut | |
accusative | nom. | rippipuku | rippipuvut |
gen. | rippipuvun | ||
genitive | rippipuvun | rippipukujen | |
partitive | rippipukua | rippipukuja | |
inessive | rippipuvussa | rippipuvuissa | |
elative | rippipuvusta | rippipuvuista | |
illative | rippipukuun | rippipukuihin | |
adessive | rippipuvulla | rippipuvuilla | |
ablative | rippipuvulta | rippipuvuilta | |
allative | rippipuvulle | rippipuvuille | |
essive | rippipukuna | rippipukuina | |
translative | rippipuvuksi | rippipuvuiksi | |
abessive | rippipuvutta | rippipuvuitta | |
instructive | — | rippipuvuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rippipuku”, 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