sirpale
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A sound-symbolic blend of siru (“chip, shard”) + sipale (“shred, piece”) (dialectal).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsirpɑleˣ/, [ˈs̠irpɑ̝le̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -irpɑle
- Syllabification(key): sir‧pa‧le
- Hyphenation(key): sir‧pa‧le
Noun
[edit]sirpale
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of sirpale (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sirpale | sirpaleet | |
| genitive | sirpaleen | sirpaleiden sirpaleitten | |
| partitive | sirpaletta | sirpaleita | |
| illative | sirpaleeseen | sirpaleisiin sirpaleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sirpale | sirpaleet | |
| accusative | nom. | sirpale | sirpaleet |
| gen. | sirpaleen | ||
| genitive | sirpaleen | sirpaleiden sirpaleitten | |
| partitive | sirpaletta | sirpaleita | |
| inessive | sirpaleessa | sirpaleissa | |
| elative | sirpaleesta | sirpaleista | |
| illative | sirpaleeseen | sirpaleisiin sirpaleihin | |
| adessive | sirpaleella | sirpaleilla | |
| ablative | sirpaleelta | sirpaleilta | |
| allative | sirpaleelle | sirpaleille | |
| essive | sirpaleena | sirpaleina | |
| translative | sirpaleeksi | sirpaleiksi | |
| abessive | sirpaleetta | sirpaleitta | |
| instructive | — | sirpalein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “sirpale”, 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