pikamatka
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]pika- (“quick, fast, express”) + matka (“distance”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pikamatka
- sprint (short race at top speed)
Usage notes
[edit]What is regarded as pikamatka depends very much on sport. In running it's anything less than 500 meters, whereas in cross-country skiing men's 15 kilometers is traditionally referred to as pikamatka. Since roughly year 2000 the organizers of skiing events have developed more audience-friendly, short-distance races called "sprint" in English, which are called sprintti or sprinttikisa in Finnish.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pikamatka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pikamatka | pikamatkat | |
genitive | pikamatkan | pikamatkojen | |
partitive | pikamatkaa | pikamatkoja | |
illative | pikamatkaan | pikamatkoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pikamatka | pikamatkat | |
accusative | nom. | pikamatka | pikamatkat |
gen. | pikamatkan | ||
genitive | pikamatkan | pikamatkojen pikamatkain rare | |
partitive | pikamatkaa | pikamatkoja | |
inessive | pikamatkassa | pikamatkoissa | |
elative | pikamatkasta | pikamatkoista | |
illative | pikamatkaan | pikamatkoihin | |
adessive | pikamatkalla | pikamatkoilla | |
ablative | pikamatkalta | pikamatkoilta | |
allative | pikamatkalle | pikamatkoille | |
essive | pikamatkana | pikamatkoina | |
translative | pikamatkaksi | pikamatkoiksi | |
abessive | pikamatkatta | pikamatkoitta | |
instructive | — | pikamatkoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pikamatka”, 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