sitoumus
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sitoutua (“to commit oneself”) + -mus < sitoa (“to bind”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sitoumus
- commitment, covenant (promise or agreement to do something in the future)
- obligation (legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sitoumus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sitoumus | sitoumukset | |
genitive | sitoumuksen | sitoumusten sitoumuksien | |
partitive | sitoumusta | sitoumuksia | |
illative | sitoumukseen | sitoumuksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sitoumus | sitoumukset | |
accusative | nom. | sitoumus | sitoumukset |
gen. | sitoumuksen | ||
genitive | sitoumuksen | sitoumusten sitoumuksien | |
partitive | sitoumusta | sitoumuksia | |
inessive | sitoumuksessa | sitoumuksissa | |
elative | sitoumuksesta | sitoumuksista | |
illative | sitoumukseen | sitoumuksiin | |
adessive | sitoumuksella | sitoumuksilla | |
ablative | sitoumukselta | sitoumuksilta | |
allative | sitoumukselle | sitoumuksille | |
essive | sitoumuksena | sitoumuksina | |
translative | sitoumukseksi | sitoumuksiksi | |
abessive | sitoumuksetta | sitoumuksitta | |
instructive | — | sitoumuksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “sitoumus”, 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