umpikuja
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]umpi- (“closed”) + kuja (“alley”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]umpikuja
- blind alley, dead-end, dead end, cul-de-sac, impasse (road or situation)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of umpikuja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | umpikuja | umpikujat | |
genitive | umpikujan | umpikujien | |
partitive | umpikujaa | umpikujia | |
illative | umpikujaan | umpikujiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | umpikuja | umpikujat | |
accusative | nom. | umpikuja | umpikujat |
gen. | umpikujan | ||
genitive | umpikujan | umpikujien umpikujain rare | |
partitive | umpikujaa | umpikujia | |
inessive | umpikujassa | umpikujissa | |
elative | umpikujasta | umpikujista | |
illative | umpikujaan | umpikujiin | |
adessive | umpikujalla | umpikujilla | |
ablative | umpikujalta | umpikujilta | |
allative | umpikujalle | umpikujille | |
essive | umpikujana | umpikujina | |
translative | umpikujaksi | umpikujiksi | |
abessive | umpikujatta | umpikujitta | |
instructive | — | umpikujin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “umpikuja”, 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 2023-07-04