kupru
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same root as kupu with sound-symbolic influence, particularly from käpristää
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupru
- bump, dent, kink
- (colloquial) mistake, error; swindle, fraud, misconduct
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kupru (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | kupru | kuprut | |
genitive | kuprun | kuprujen | |
partitive | kuprua | kupruja | |
illative | kupruun | kupruihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kupru | kuprut | |
accusative | nom. | kupru | kuprut |
gen. | kuprun | ||
genitive | kuprun | kuprujen | |
partitive | kuprua | kupruja | |
inessive | kuprussa | kupruissa | |
elative | kuprusta | kupruista | |
illative | kupruun | kupruihin | |
adessive | kuprulla | kupruilla | |
ablative | kuprulta | kupruilta | |
allative | kuprulle | kupruille | |
essive | kupruna | kupruina | |
translative | kupruksi | kupruiksi | |
abessive | kuprutta | kupruitta | |
instructive | — | kupruin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kupru”, 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