sotku
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sotkea (“to mess up”) + -u. The military meaning is also by abbreviation from sotilaskoti.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sotku
- mess, hash, hodgepodge (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
- mess, tangle, snafu, hodgepodge (something in disarray)
- (military slang) Synonym of sotilaskoti
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sotku (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sotku | sotkut | |
genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | |
partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | |
illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sotku | sotkut | |
accusative | nom. | sotku | sotkut |
gen. | sotkun | ||
genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | |
partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | |
inessive | sotkussa | sotkuissa | |
elative | sotkusta | sotkuista | |
illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | |
adessive | sotkulla | sotkuilla | |
ablative | sotkulta | sotkuilta | |
allative | sotkulle | sotkuille | |
essive | sotkuna | sotkuina | |
translative | sotkuksi | sotkuiksi | |
abessive | sotkutta | sotkuitta | |
instructive | — | sotkuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “sotku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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