teevee
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Respelling of the abbreviation TV.
Noun
[edit]teevee (countable and uncountable, plural teevees)
- (colloquial) television
- 2002, Buck Song Koh, Umej Bhatia, From Boys to Men:
- On teevee, everyone looked the same. People were just different shades of grey. If the sky was grey on teevee, I knew it meant blue.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the abbreviation TV.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈteːʋeː/, [ˈt̪e̞ːʋe̞ː]
- Rhymes: -eːʋeː
- Syllabification(key): tee‧vee
- Hyphenation(key): tee‧vee
Noun
[edit]teevee (colloquial)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of teevee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | teevee | teeveet | |
| genitive | teeveen | teeveiden teeveitten | |
| partitive | teeveetä | teeveitä | |
| illative | teeveehen teeveeseen |
teeveihin teeveisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | teevee | teeveet | |
| accusative | nom. | teevee | teeveet |
| gen. | teeveen | ||
| genitive | teeveen | teeveiden teeveitten | |
| partitive | teeveetä | teeveitä | |
| inessive | teeveessä | teeveissä | |
| elative | teeveestä | teeveistä | |
| illative | teeveehen teeveeseen |
teeveihin teeveisiin | |
| adessive | teeveellä | teeveillä | |
| ablative | teeveeltä | teeveiltä | |
| allative | teeveelle | teeveille | |
| essive | teeveenä | teeveinä | |
| translative | teeveeksi | teeveiksi | |
| abessive | teeveettä | teeveittä | |
| instructive | — | teevein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “teevee”, 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
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