kapiainen
Appearance
See also: Kapiainen
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of kapitulantti (“NCO belonging to the permanent staff of military forces”) + -iainen
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kapiainen (informal)
- (possibly derogatory) A person belonging to the permanent staff of the military.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kapiainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kapiainen | kapiaiset | |
genitive | kapiaisen | kapiaisten kapiaisien | |
partitive | kapiaista | kapiaisia | |
illative | kapiaiseen | kapiaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kapiainen | kapiaiset | |
accusative | nom. | kapiainen | kapiaiset |
gen. | kapiaisen | ||
genitive | kapiaisen | kapiaisten kapiaisien | |
partitive | kapiaista | kapiaisia | |
inessive | kapiaisessa | kapiaisissa | |
elative | kapiaisesta | kapiaisista | |
illative | kapiaiseen | kapiaisiin | |
adessive | kapiaisella | kapiaisilla | |
ablative | kapiaiselta | kapiaisilta | |
allative | kapiaiselle | kapiaisille | |
essive | kapiaisena | kapiaisina | |
translative | kapiaiseksi | kapiaisiksi | |
abessive | kapiaisetta | kapiaisitta | |
instructive | — | kapiaisin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kapiainen”, 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