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pannukakku

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Finnish

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A serving of pannukakku with jam, whipped cream and a cup of coffee
A serving of Åland pancake (ålandspannkaka), a distinctive variety of pannukakku from Åland, an autonomous archipelago in Finland

Etymology

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pannu +‎ kakku; calque of Swedish pannkaka (pancake) (both words of which, panna and kaka, are furthermore related to the Finnish counterparts). The figurative sense "failure, fiasco" (which is also found in Swedish) may refer to how a cake that fails to rise in the oven stays flat like a pancake.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑnːuˌkɑkːu/, [ˈpɑ̝nːuˌkɑ̝kːu]
  • Rhymes: -ɑkːu
  • Hyphenation(key): pannu‧kakku

Noun

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pannukakku

  1. a thick (~ 1–2 cm, 1234 in) pancake baked in oven, eaten as dessert and often served with whipped cream and/or jam
    Near-synonyms: (thin pancake) lettu, lätty, ohukainen, ohukas, räiskäle
  2. (broadly) pancake
  3. (idiomatic) failure, fiasco

Usage notes

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pannukakku tends to refer to thicker pancakes, like those in the photos. Thinner pancakes are usually called something else, like ohukainen, lettu or räiskäle.

Declension

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Inflection of pannukakku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation)
nominative pannukakku pannukakut
genitive pannukakun pannukakkujen
partitive pannukakkua pannukakkuja
illative pannukakkuun pannukakkuihin
singular plural
nominative pannukakku pannukakut
accusative nom. pannukakku pannukakut
gen. pannukakun
genitive pannukakun pannukakkujen
partitive pannukakkua pannukakkuja
inessive pannukakussa pannukakuissa
elative pannukakusta pannukakuista
illative pannukakkuun pannukakkuihin
adessive pannukakulla pannukakuilla
ablative pannukakulta pannukakuilta
allative pannukakulle pannukakuille
essive pannukakkuna pannukakkuina
translative pannukakuksi pannukakuiksi
abessive pannukakutta pannukakuitta
instructive pannukakuin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pannukakku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation)

Derived terms

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See also

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