spesies
Afrikaans
Noun
spesies
Finnish
Etymology
Coined by the Swedish Neogrammarian linguist Adolf Noreen in 1904, adopted into Finnish grammatical vocabulary in 1915.
Pronunciation
Noun
spesies
- (grammar, dated) definiteness or indefiniteness (the quality of a language of expressing the nouns and noun phrases in either definite or indefinite form; the Indoeuropean languages generally have this quality whereas some others, like the Finno-Ugric languages, don't)
Declension
Inflection of spesies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | spesies | spesiekset | |
genitive | spesieksen | spesiesten spesieksien | |
partitive | spesiestä | spesieksiä | |
illative | spesiekseen | spesieksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | spesies | spesiekset | |
accusative | nom. | spesies | spesiekset |
gen. | spesieksen | ||
genitive | spesieksen | spesiesten spesieksien | |
partitive | spesiestä | spesieksiä | |
inessive | spesieksessä | spesieksissä | |
elative | spesieksestä | spesieksistä | |
illative | spesiekseen | spesieksiin | |
adessive | spesieksellä | spesieksillä | |
ablative | spesiekseltä | spesieksiltä | |
allative | spesiekselle | spesieksille | |
essive | spesieksenä | spesieksinä | |
translative | spesiekseksi | spesieksiksi | |
abessive | spesieksettä | spesieksittä | |
instructive | — | spesieksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Usage notes
- Biological species is laji in Finnish.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Further reading
- "Definiteness in Finnish", article by Andrew Chesterman [1]