Міссурі

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲiˈsːurʲi]

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Proper noun

Міссу́рі • (Missúri) f inan (indeclinable)

1. Missouri, Missouri River (The longest river in North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana and flowing roughly southeast over 2,300 miles through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, before joining the Mississippi at St. Louis)

Proper noun

Міссу́рі • (Missúri) m inan (indeclinable)

1. Missouri (a state in the Midwestern region of the United States)

Usage notes

In Ukrainian, non-Slavic proper nouns and most loanwords ending in -о or -і are indeclinable and take on the gender of their superordinate. Thus, Міссурі is masculine when referring to the state because штат (štat, “state”) is masculine, and feminine when referring to the river because ріка (rika, “river”) is feminine.

Derived terms

• міссурі́єць (missuríjecʹ)
• міссурі́йка (missuríjka)