torppari
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]torppa + -ari or directly from Swedish torpare < torp + -are
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]torppari
- (historical) crofter (tenant farmer who paid his rent chiefly by working for the landlord, and earned his own living chiefly from the rented land)
- (figuratively, ironic, by extension) any person who is in a long-term relation in which he/she feels that the best part of his work goes to the benefit of someone else
- pankin torppari ― a holder of a large mortgage
Declension
[edit]Inflection of torppari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | torppari | torpparit | |
genitive | torpparin | torpparien torppareiden torppareitten | |
partitive | torpparia | torppareita torppareja | |
illative | torppariin | torppareihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | torppari | torpparit | |
accusative | nom. | torppari | torpparit |
gen. | torpparin | ||
genitive | torpparin | torpparien torppareiden torppareitten | |
partitive | torpparia | torppareita torppareja | |
inessive | torpparissa | torppareissa | |
elative | torpparista | torppareista | |
illative | torppariin | torppareihin | |
adessive | torpparilla | torppareilla | |
ablative | torpparilta | torppareilta | |
allative | torpparille | torppareille | |
essive | torpparina | torppareina | |
translative | torppariksi | torppareiksi | |
abessive | torpparitta | torppareitta | |
instructive | — | torpparein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
[edit]- vuokraviljelijä (“tenant farmer”)
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “torppari”, 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 suffixed with -ari
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/orpːɑri
- Rhymes:Finnish/orpːɑri/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with historical senses
- Finnish terms with collocations
- Finnish paperi-type nominals