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kortteli

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkortːeli/, [ˈko̞rt̪ːe̞li]
  • Rhymes: -ortːeli
  • Hyphenation(key): kort‧te‧li

Noun

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kortteli

  1. block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets)
    Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.
    I'm just going for a walk around the block.
  2. (in compounds) local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city)
    korttelikuppilathe neighbourhood pub
  3. block (distance from one street to another in a city)
  4. (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters
    Synonym: vaaksa
  5. (historical) Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters
  6. (historical) unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters
  7. (dialectal, dated) mug of roughly this volume

Declension

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Inflection of kortteli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative kortteli korttelit
genitive korttelin korttelien
kortteleiden
kortteleitten
partitive korttelia kortteleita
kortteleja
illative kortteliin kortteleihin
singular plural
nominative kortteli korttelit
accusative nom. kortteli korttelit
gen. korttelin
genitive korttelin korttelien
kortteleiden
kortteleitten
partitive korttelia kortteleita
kortteleja
inessive korttelissa kortteleissa
elative korttelista kortteleista
illative kortteliin kortteleihin
adessive korttelilla kortteleilla
ablative korttelilta kortteleilta
allative korttelille kortteleille
essive korttelina kortteleina
translative kortteliksi kortteleiksi
abessive korttelitta kortteleitta
instructive korttelein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of kortteli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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