mairea
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *mairë- + -ea, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *smairjaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mairea (comparative maireampi, superlative mairein)
- expressing flattery or cuteness that is probably not sincere, unctuous, flattering
- Ei mikään tosin ole tympäisevämpää kuin teeskennellyn mäireät lausunnot suuruuksille (Sillanpää).
- Nothing is more nauseating than pretentious sweet statements to their greatness.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of mairea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mairea | maireat | |
genitive | mairean | maireiden maireitten | |
partitive | maireaa maireata |
maireita | |
illative | maireaan | maireisiin maireihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mairea | maireat | |
accusative | nom. | mairea | maireat |
gen. | mairean | ||
genitive | mairean | maireiden maireitten maireain rare | |
partitive | maireaa maireata |
maireita | |
inessive | maireassa | maireissa | |
elative | maireasta | maireista | |
illative | maireaan | maireisiin maireihin | |
adessive | mairealla | maireilla | |
ablative | mairealta | maireilta | |
allative | mairealle | maireille | |
essive | maireana | maireina | |
translative | maireaksi | maireiksi | |
abessive | maireatta | maireitta | |
instructive | — | mairein | |
comitative | — | maireine |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mairea”, 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 2023-07-03
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- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -ea
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish 3-syllable words
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