varpunen
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old East Slavic [Term?] (compare Russian воробе́й (vorobéj)); nativized with the diminutive -nen suffix.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]varpunen
- sparrow
- 1913, Zacharius Topelius (original poem in Swedish, 1859), K. A. Waaranen (Finnish translation, 1874), Otto Kotilainen (composer), “Varpunen jouluaamuna [A Sparrow on Christmas Morning]”[1]:
- Lumi on jo peittänyt kukat laaksosessa,
järven aalto jäätynyt talvipakkasessa.
Varpunen pienoinen, syönyt kesäeinehen,
järven aalto jäätynyt talvipakkasessa.- Snow has fallen, through it pokes not a single heather,
waves of water turned to ice by the wintry weather.
A sparrow so little with nothing to eat and live,
waves of water turned to ice by the wintry weather. - (literally, “The snow has already covered the flowers in the dale,
the waves of the lake have been frozen by the cold winter weather.
A tiny sparrow has eaten the (last of its) summer food,
the waves of the lake have been frozen by the cold winter weather.”)
- Snow has fallen, through it pokes not a single heather,
- (specifically) house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- (as modifier in compound terms) passerine, sparrow
- varpuslintu ― passerine bird
- varpushaukka ― sparrow hawk
Declension
[edit]Inflection of varpunen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | varpunen | varpuset | |
genitive | varpusen | varpusten varpusien | |
partitive | varpusta | varpusia | |
illative | varpuseen | varpusiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | varpunen | varpuset | |
accusative | nom. | varpunen | varpuset |
gen. | varpusen | ||
genitive | varpusen | varpusten varpusien | |
partitive | varpusta | varpusia | |
inessive | varpusessa | varpusissa | |
elative | varpusesta | varpusista | |
illative | varpuseen | varpusiin | |
adessive | varpusella | varpusilla | |
ablative | varpuselta | varpusilta | |
allative | varpuselle | varpusille | |
essive | varpusena | varpusina | |
translative | varpuseksi | varpusiksi | |
abessive | varpusetta | varpusitta | |
instructive | — | varpusin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]- aavikkovarpunen
- afrikanvarpunen
- arabiankultavarpunen
- arovarpunen
- eteläntuhkavarpunen
- hamppuvarpunen
- harmaavarpunen
- indusinvarpunen
- kalliovarpunen
- kanelilumivarpunen
- kanelivarpunen
- kapverdenvarpunen
- kastanjavarpunen
- keidasvarpunen
- keltakurkkuvarpunen
- lumivarpunen
- metsäkalliovarpunen
- nokkavarpunen
- palmuvarpunen
- pamirinlumivarpunen
- pensaskalliovarpunen
- pensasvarpunen
- piiskulumivarpunen
- pikkulumivarpunen
- pikkuvarpunen
- punavarpunen
- rusolumivarpunen
- sahelinkultavarpunen
- sirkkuvarpunen
- somalianvarpunen
- tamariskivarpunen
- tarhavarpunen
- tiibetinlumivarpunen
- tuhkalumivarpunen
- tuhkavarpunen
- varpushaukka
- varpuslintu
- varpusparvi
- varpuspöllö
- vihervarpunen
Further reading
[edit]- “varpunen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Old East Slavic
- Finnish terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -nen
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrpunen
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrpunen/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish nainen-type nominals
- fi:Birds