kortteli
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kortteli
- 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.
- (in compounds) local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city)
- korttelikuppila ― the neighbourhood pub
- block (distance from one street to another in a city)
- (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters
- Synonym: vaaksa
- (historical) Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters
- (historical) unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters
- (dialectal, dated) mug of roughly this volume
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kortteli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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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. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (distance btw. streets): kadunväli
- (Russian unit of length): setvertti, venäläinen kortteli
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kortteli”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Finnish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːeli
- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːeli/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish terms with historical senses
- Finnish dialectal terms
- Finnish dated terms
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- fi:Units of measure