buuri
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Farefare
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Moore buudu (“race, tribe, kind, species, ethnicity”)
Noun
[edit]buuri
- species, kind, race, ethnicity, tribe
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Afrikaans Boer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buuri
Declension
[edit]Inflection of buuri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | buuri | buurit | |
genitive | buurin | buurien | |
partitive | buuria | buureja | |
illative | buuriin | buureihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | buuri | buurit | |
accusative | nom. | buuri | buurit |
gen. | buurin | ||
genitive | buurin | buurien | |
partitive | buuria | buureja | |
inessive | buurissa | buureissa | |
elative | buurista | buureista | |
illative | buuriin | buureihin | |
adessive | buurilla | buureilla | |
ablative | buurilta | buureilta | |
allative | buurille | buureille | |
essive | buurina | buureina | |
translative | buuriksi | buureiksi | |
abessive | buuritta | buureitta | |
instructive | — | buurein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “buuri”, 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