britti
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Swedish britt. For sense 4, compare jenkki, tšekki.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]britti
- Briton (inhabitant of Great Britain)
- Briton (citizen of the United Kingdom)
- (historical) Briton (Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest)
- Synonym: brittiläinen
- (in the plural, informal) Great Britain
- Oletko käynyt briteissä?
- Have you been to Great Britain?
Declension
[edit]Inflection of britti (Kotus type 5*C/risti, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | britti | britit | |
genitive | britin | brittien | |
partitive | brittia | britteja | |
illative | brittiin | britteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | britti | britit | |
accusative | nom. | britti | britit |
gen. | britin | ||
genitive | britin | brittien | |
partitive | brittia | britteja | |
inessive | britissa | briteissa | |
elative | britista | briteista | |
illative | brittiin | britteihin | |
adessive | britilla | briteilla | |
ablative | britilta | briteilta | |
allative | britille | briteille | |
essive | brittina | britteina | |
translative | britiksi | briteiksi | |
abessive | brititta | briteitta | |
instructive | — | britein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “britti”, 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 2023-07-02