tienesti
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish þiǣnist, thienst, þiānist (“service, decoration of honor”), from Proto-Germanic *þewanōstaz (“service”). Akin to Swedish tjänst (“service; employment, job, esp. public office”), German Dienst, Dutch dienst.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tienesti (colloquial)
- (paid) employment, paid work, wage labor
- (in the plural) earnings, income
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tienesti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tienesti | tienestit | |
genitive | tienestin | tienestien | |
partitive | tienestiä | tienestejä | |
illative | tienestiin | tienesteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tienesti | tienestit | |
accusative | nom. | tienesti | tienestit |
gen. | tienestin | ||
genitive | tienestin | tienestien | |
partitive | tienestiä | tienestejä | |
inessive | tienestissä | tienesteissä | |
elative | tienestistä | tienesteistä | |
illative | tienestiin | tienesteihin | |
adessive | tienestillä | tienesteillä | |
ablative | tienestiltä | tienesteiltä | |
allative | tienestille | tienesteille | |
essive | tienestinä | tienesteinä | |
translative | tienestiksi | tienesteiksi | |
abessive | tienestittä | tienesteittä | |
instructive | — | tienestein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “tienesti”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ienesti
- Rhymes:Finnish/ienesti/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish risti-type nominals