sumppi
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish sump (“(used) coffee grounds”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sumppi
- coffee made from used coffee grounds, a common practice at the time coffee was expensive as compared to ordinary incomes
- (informal) mud (coffee brew, especially when of poor quality)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sumppi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | sumppi | sumpit | |
genitive | sumpin | sumppien | |
partitive | sumppia | sumppeja | |
illative | sumppiin | sumppeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sumppi | sumpit | |
accusative | nom. | sumppi | sumpit |
gen. | sumpin | ||
genitive | sumpin | sumppien | |
partitive | sumppia | sumppeja | |
inessive | sumpissa | sumpeissa | |
elative | sumpista | sumpeista | |
illative | sumppiin | sumppeihin | |
adessive | sumpilla | sumpeilla | |
ablative | sumpilta | sumpeilta | |
allative | sumpille | sumpeille | |
essive | sumppina | sumppeina | |
translative | sumpiksi | sumpeiksi | |
abessive | sumpitta | sumpeitta | |
instructive | — | sumpein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “sumppi”, 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