pientalo
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]pien- (“small”) + talo (“house”); originally zoning terminology, but is now in widespread use.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pientalo
- (broadly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), including detached houses, terraced houses, etc., but not blocks of flats or apartment buildings
- Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”), ketjutalo (“link-detached house, linked house”), rivitalo (“terrace[d house(s)] (on a shared lot)”), kaupunkipientalo (“terrace[d house(s)] on separate lots”)
- Coordinate term: kerrostalo
- (strictly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), with at most two houses linked together
- Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”)
- (informal) A small residential building, small house, bungalow.
Usage notes
[edit]Tilastokeskus (“Statistics Finland”) adheres to the strict definition above.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pientalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pientalo | pientalot | |
genitive | pientalon | pientalojen | |
partitive | pientaloa | pientaloja | |
illative | pientaloon | pientaloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pientalo | pientalot | |
accusative | nom. | pientalo | pientalot |
gen. | pientalon | ||
genitive | pientalon | pientalojen | |
partitive | pientaloa | pientaloja | |
inessive | pientalossa | pientaloissa | |
elative | pientalosta | pientaloista | |
illative | pientaloon | pientaloihin | |
adessive | pientalolla | pientaloilla | |
ablative | pientalolta | pientaloilta | |
allative | pientalolle | pientaloille | |
essive | pientalona | pientaloina | |
translative | pientaloksi | pientaloiksi | |
abessive | pientalotta | pientaloitta | |
instructive | — | pientaloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pientalo”, 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