ruuhka
Appearance
Finnish
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *ruhka, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hrūgǭ (compare modern Swedish råge (“more than full measure”)), perhaps originally meaning "heap".
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈruːhkɑ/, [ˈruːxkɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -uːhkɑ
- Syllabification(key): ruuh‧ka
- Hyphenation(key): ruuh‧ka
Noun
[edit]ruuhka
- congestion, lots of traffic, traffic jam
- Olen ruuhkassa.
- There's lots of traffic here. / I'm stuck in traffic.
- jam, logjam, blockage
- backlog (accumulation or buildup)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of ruuhka (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ruuhka | ruuhkat | |
| genitive | ruuhkan | ruuhkien | |
| partitive | ruuhkaa | ruuhkia | |
| illative | ruuhkaan | ruuhkiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ruuhka | ruuhkat | |
| accusative | nom. | ruuhka | ruuhkat |
| gen. | ruuhkan | ||
| genitive | ruuhkan | ruuhkien ruuhkain rare | |
| partitive | ruuhkaa | ruuhkia | |
| inessive | ruuhkassa | ruuhkissa | |
| elative | ruuhkasta | ruuhkista | |
| illative | ruuhkaan | ruuhkiin | |
| adessive | ruuhkalla | ruuhkilla | |
| ablative | ruuhkalta | ruuhkilta | |
| allative | ruuhkalle | ruuhkille | |
| essive | ruuhkana | ruuhkina | |
| translative | ruuhkaksi | ruuhkiksi | |
| abessive | ruuhkatta | ruuhkitta | |
| instructive | — | ruuhkin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]- (jam): tukos, ahtauma, suma, tukkeuma
- (traffic jam): liikenneruuhka
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ruuhka”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/uːhkɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/uːhkɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish koira-type nominals