tienesti
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish þiǣnist, thienst, þiānist (“service, decoration of honor”), from Proto-Germanic *þewanōstaz (“service”). Akin to Swedish tjänst (“service; employment, job, esp. public office”), German Dienst, Dutch dienst.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tienesti (colloquial)
- (paid) employment, paid work, wage labor
- (in the plural) earnings, income
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tienesti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tienesti | tienestit | ||
genitive | tienestin | tienestien | ||
partitive | tienestiä | tienestejä | ||
illative | tienestiin | tienesteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tienesti | tienestit | ||
accusative | nom. | tienesti | tienestit | |
gen. | tienestin | |||
genitive | tienestin | tienestien | ||
partitive | tienestiä | tienestejä | ||
inessive | tienestissä | tienesteissä | ||
elative | tienestistä | tienesteistä | ||
illative | tienestiin | tienesteihin | ||
adessive | tienestillä | tienesteillä | ||
ablative | tienestiltä | tienesteiltä | ||
allative | tienestille | tienesteille | ||
essive | tienestinä | tienesteinä | ||
translative | tienestiksi | tienesteiksi | ||
abessive | tienestittä | tienesteittä | ||
instructive | — | tienestein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “tienesti”, 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
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ienesti
- Rhymes:Finnish/ienesti/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish risti-type nominals