tehostin
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]tehostaa (“to enhance, strengthen, boost”) + -in (“-er”)
Noun
[edit]tehostin
- A device that enhances or strengthens a small force into a larger one.
- ohjaustehostin ― power steering (the equipment)
- jarrutehostin ― hydraulic brake, power brake (the equipment)
Usage notes
[edit]Translations into English vary by application. Despite the etymology, booster is normally something else than tehostin in Finnish.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tehostin (Kotus type 33/kytkin, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tehostin | tehostimet | |
genitive | tehostimen | tehostimien tehostinten | |
partitive | tehostinta | tehostimia | |
illative | tehostimeen | tehostimiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tehostin | tehostimet | |
accusative | nom. | tehostin | tehostimet |
gen. | tehostimen | ||
genitive | tehostimen | tehostimien tehostinten | |
partitive | tehostinta | tehostimia | |
inessive | tehostimessa | tehostimissa | |
elative | tehostimesta | tehostimista | |
illative | tehostimeen | tehostimiin | |
adessive | tehostimella | tehostimilla | |
ablative | tehostimelta | tehostimilta | |
allative | tehostimelle | tehostimille | |
essive | tehostimena | tehostimina | |
translative | tehostimeksi | tehostimiksi | |
abessive | tehostimetta | tehostimitta | |
instructive | — | tehostimin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tehostin”, 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 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]tehostin