neukku
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of neuvostoliittolainen + -kku.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]neukku
- (colloquial) Soviet citizen
- Synonym: neuvostoliittolainen
- (in the plural, informal) Soviet Union
- Synonym: Neuvostoliitto
- Kävitkö usein neukuissa?
- Did you often visit the Soviet Union?
Declension
[edit]Inflection of neukku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | neukku | neukut | |
genitive | neukun | neukkujen | |
partitive | neukkua | neukkuja | |
illative | neukkuun | neukkuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | neukku | neukut | |
accusative | nom. | neukku | neukut |
gen. | neukun | ||
genitive | neukun | neukkujen | |
partitive | neukkua | neukkuja | |
inessive | neukussa | neukuissa | |
elative | neukusta | neukuista | |
illative | neukkuun | neukkuihin | |
adessive | neukulla | neukuilla | |
ablative | neukulta | neukuilta | |
allative | neukulle | neukuille | |
essive | neukkuna | neukkuina | |
translative | neukuksi | neukuiksi | |
abessive | neukutta | neukuitta | |
instructive | — | neukuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]- neukkukuutio
- Neukkula (“the Soviet Union”)
- neukkulainen (“Soviet”)
Further reading
[edit]- “neukku”, 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