torttu
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish tårta (“torte, cake”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]torttu
- tart, pie, (small) cake (type of pastry, often open-topped)
- raparperitorttu ― rhubarb tart/pie
- omenatorttu ― apple tart/pie
- (colloquial) turd (piece of excrement)
- vääntää torttu ― to push out a turd
- (slang) pie (vulva)
Usage notes
[edit]- English word torte is a "false friend" - it is usually translated as kakku into Finnish.
- The terms torttu, piirakka, leivos and kakku are overlapping.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of torttu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | torttu | tortut | |
genitive | tortun | torttujen | |
partitive | torttua | torttuja | |
illative | torttuun | torttuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | torttu | tortut | |
accusative | nom. | torttu | tortut |
gen. | tortun | ||
genitive | tortun | torttujen | |
partitive | torttua | torttuja | |
inessive | tortussa | tortuissa | |
elative | tortusta | tortuista | |
illative | torttuun | torttuihin | |
adessive | tortulla | tortuilla | |
ablative | tortulta | tortuilta | |
allative | tortulle | tortuille | |
essive | torttuna | torttuina | |
translative | tortuksi | tortuiksi | |
abessive | tortutta | tortuitta | |
instructive | — | tortuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “torttu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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
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[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ortːu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with collocations
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish slang
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Cakes and pastries