siltarumpupolitiikka
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]siltarumpu (“culvert”) + politiikka (“politics”); coined by Finnish MP Jörn Donner who criticized his fellow MP's for the practice.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsiltɑˌrumpuˌpolitiːkːɑ/, [ˈs̠il̪t̪ɑ̝ˌrumpuˌpo̞liˌt̪iːkːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iːkːɑ
- Hyphenation(key): silta‧rumpu‧poli‧tiik‧ka
Noun
[edit]siltarumpupolitiikka
- (politics) pork-barrelling, provincialism, parochialism; parish pump politics (Ireland) (practice of MP's favoring their own voters instead of promoting national interest)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of siltarumpupolitiikka (Kotus type 9*A/kala, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | siltarumpupolitiikka | — | |
genitive | siltarumpupolitiikan | — | |
partitive | siltarumpupolitiikkaa | — | |
illative | siltarumpupolitiikkaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | siltarumpupolitiikka | — | |
accusative | nom. | siltarumpupolitiikka | — |
gen. | siltarumpupolitiikan | ||
genitive | siltarumpupolitiikan | — | |
partitive | siltarumpupolitiikkaa | — | |
inessive | siltarumpupolitiikassa | — | |
elative | siltarumpupolitiikasta | — | |
illative | siltarumpupolitiikkaan | — | |
adessive | siltarumpupolitiikalla | — | |
ablative | siltarumpupolitiikalta | — | |
allative | siltarumpupolitiikalle | — | |
essive | siltarumpupolitiikkana | — | |
translative | siltarumpupolitiikaksi | — | |
abessive | siltarumpupolitiikatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “siltarumpupolitiikka”, 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