sotku
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sotkea (“to mess up”) + -u. The military meaning is also by abbreviation from sotilaskoti.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sotku
- mess, hash, hodgepodge (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
- mess, tangle, snafu, hodgepodge (something in disarray)
- (military slang) Synonym of sotilaskoti
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of sotku (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sotku | sotkut | |
| genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | |
| partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | |
| illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sotku | sotkut | |
| accusative | nom. | sotku | sotkut |
| gen. | sotkun | ||
| genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | |
| partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | |
| inessive | sotkussa | sotkuissa | |
| elative | sotkusta | sotkuista | |
| illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | |
| adessive | sotkulla | sotkuilla | |
| ablative | sotkulta | sotkuilta | |
| allative | sotkulle | sotkuille | |
| essive | sotkuna | sotkuina | |
| translative | sotkuksi | sotkuiksi | |
| abessive | sotkutta | sotkuitta | |
| instructive | — | sotkuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “sotku”, 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