sordiino
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sordiino
- (music) mute, sordine (device for dulling the sound of an instrument)
- (figuratively, idiomatic) inability or unwillingness to speak, keeping a low profile (usually in the phrase sordiino päällä)
- Pääministerillä on sordiino päällä pakolaiskysymyksessä.
- The prime minister is keeping a low profile on the refugee issue.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sordiino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sordiino | sordiinot | |
genitive | sordiinon | sordiinojen | |
partitive | sordiinoa | sordiinoja | |
illative | sordiinoon | sordiinoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sordiino | sordiinot | |
accusative | nom. | sordiino | sordiinot |
gen. | sordiinon | ||
genitive | sordiinon | sordiinojen | |
partitive | sordiinoa | sordiinoja | |
inessive | sordiinossa | sordiinoissa | |
elative | sordiinosta | sordiinoista | |
illative | sordiinoon | sordiinoihin | |
adessive | sordiinolla | sordiinoilla | |
ablative | sordiinolta | sordiinoilta | |
allative | sordiinolle | sordiinoille | |
essive | sordiinona | sordiinoina | |
translative | sordiinoksi | sordiinoiksi | |
abessive | sordiinotta | sordiinoitta | |
instructive | — | sordiinoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
References
[edit]Mute (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
[edit]- “sordiino”, 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