kontrabasso
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see English contrabass), ultimately from Italian contrabbasso.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kontrabasso
- double bass, contrabass (lowest-pitched instrument of violin family)
- double bass, contrabass (lowest male voice)
- contrabass (octave one below bass)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kontrabasso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kontrabasso | kontrabassot | |
genitive | kontrabasson | kontrabassojen | |
partitive | kontrabassoa | kontrabassoja | |
illative | kontrabassoon | kontrabassoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kontrabasso | kontrabassot | |
accusative | nom. | kontrabasso | kontrabassot |
gen. | kontrabasson | ||
genitive | kontrabasson | kontrabassojen | |
partitive | kontrabassoa | kontrabassoja | |
inessive | kontrabassossa | kontrabassoissa | |
elative | kontrabassosta | kontrabassoista | |
illative | kontrabassoon | kontrabassoihin | |
adessive | kontrabassolla | kontrabassoilla | |
ablative | kontrabassolta | kontrabassoilta | |
allative | kontrabassolle | kontrabassoille | |
essive | kontrabassona | kontrabassoina | |
translative | kontrabassoksi | kontrabassoiksi | |
abessive | kontrabassotta | kontrabassoitta | |
instructive | — | kontrabassoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (instrument): bassoviulu
Further reading
[edit]- “kontrabasso”, 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