Category:Karelian terms by usage

Karelian terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Karelian terms with archaic senses: Karelian terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Karelian childish terms: Karelian terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Karelian colloquialisms: Karelian terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Karelian dated terms: Karelian terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Karelian derogatory terms: Karelian terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Karelian dialectal terms: Karelian terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Karelian higher register terms: Karelian terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Karelian informal terms: Karelian terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Karelian terms with obsolete senses: Karelian terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Karelian obsolete terms: Karelian terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Karelian offensive terms: Karelian terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Karelian poetic terms: Karelian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Karelian terms with rare senses: Karelian terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Karelian short forms: Karelian terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Karelian superseded forms: Karelian forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Karelian vulgarities: Karelian terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.