mopo
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of moottoripolkupyörä (literally “motorized bicycle”), coined by Helkama in 1955. The army slang sense is taken from monni (which also begins with mo-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mopo
- moped
- Synonym: mopedi
- Coordinate terms: kevytmoottoripyörä, kevari
- (military slang) Synonym of monni (“rookie, recruit”)
- (slang, by extension) new student in a school
Declension
[edit]Inflection of mopo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mopo | mopot | |
genitive | mopon | mopojen | |
partitive | mopoa | mopoja | |
illative | mopoon | mopoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mopo | mopot | |
accusative | nom. | mopo | mopot |
gen. | mopon | ||
genitive | mopon | mopojen | |
partitive | mopoa | mopoja | |
inessive | mopossa | mopoissa | |
elative | moposta | mopoista | |
illative | mopoon | mopoihin | |
adessive | mopolla | mopoilla | |
ablative | mopolta | mopoilta | |
allative | mopolle | mopoille | |
essive | mopona | mopoina | |
translative | mopoksi | mopoiksi | |
abessive | mopotta | mopoitta | |
instructive | — | mopoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mopo”, 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