taskumatti
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tasku (“pocket”) + Matti (“a given name”). According to a common story, named after Matti Helenius-Seppälä, an early 20th century activist in the Finnish temperance movement, but this might simply be a folk etymology.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]taskumatti
- hip flask, pocket flask (pocket-size container for alcoholic beverages)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of taskumatti (Kotus type 5*C/risti, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | taskumatti | taskumatit | ||
genitive | taskumatin | taskumattien | ||
partitive | taskumattia | taskumatteja | ||
illative | taskumattiin | taskumatteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | taskumatti | taskumatit | ||
accusative | nom. | taskumatti | taskumatit | |
gen. | taskumatin | |||
genitive | taskumatin | taskumattien | ||
partitive | taskumattia | taskumatteja | ||
inessive | taskumatissa | taskumateissa | ||
elative | taskumatista | taskumateista | ||
illative | taskumattiin | taskumatteihin | ||
adessive | taskumatilla | taskumateilla | ||
ablative | taskumatilta | taskumateilta | ||
allative | taskumatille | taskumateille | ||
essive | taskumattina | taskumatteina | ||
translative | taskumatiksi | taskumateiksi | ||
abessive | taskumatitta | taskumateitta | ||
instructive | — | taskumatein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “taskumatti”, 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 2023-07-03