romu
Appearance
See also: Romu
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish romu. Until the late 20th century, the word was restricted to colloquial speech.
Noun
[edit]romu (genitive romu, partitive romu)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of romu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | romu | romud | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | romu | ||
| genitive | romude | ||
| partitive | romu | romusid | |
| illative | rommu romusse |
romudesse | |
| inessive | romus | romudes | |
| elative | romust | romudest | |
| allative | romule | romudele | |
| adessive | romul | romudel | |
| ablative | romult | romudelt | |
| translative | romuks | romudeks | |
| terminative | romuni | romudeni | |
| essive | romuna | romudena | |
| abessive | romuta | romudeta | |
| comitative | romuga | romudega | |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]romista (“to crash, make a crashing sound”) + -u
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]romu
- scrap, junk, especially one that consists of metal objects
- wreck, wreckage
- debris (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed; refuse)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of romu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | romu | romut | |
| genitive | romun | romujen | |
| partitive | romua | romuja | |
| illative | romuun | romuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | romu | romut | |
| accusative | nom. | romu | romut |
| gen. | romun | ||
| genitive | romun | romujen | |
| partitive | romua | romuja | |
| inessive | romussa | romuissa | |
| elative | romusta | romuista | |
| illative | romuun | romuihin | |
| adessive | romulla | romuilla | |
| ablative | romulta | romuilta | |
| allative | romulle | romuille | |
| essive | romuna | romuina | |
| translative | romuksi | romuiksi | |
| abessive | romutta | romuitta | |
| instructive | — | romuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “romu”, 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 3 July 2023
Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]romu
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- Estonian terms borrowed from Finnish
- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Estonian elu-type nominals
- Finnish terms suffixed with -u
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/omu
- Rhymes:Finnish/omu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations