nelonen
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editnelonen
- four (digit or figure 4)
- number four (anything that is fourth or with the number four)
- fourth gear
- F (failing grade; in Finnish schools the grades are given in numbers between 4 and 10)
- quadruplet (one of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth)
- (card games, in the plural) four of a kind (four cards of the same rank in one hand)
Declension
editInflection of nelonen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | nelonen | neloset | |
genitive | nelosen | nelosten nelosien | |
partitive | nelosta | nelosia | |
illative | neloseen | nelosiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | nelonen | neloset | |
accusative | nom. | nelonen | neloset |
gen. | nelosen | ||
genitive | nelosen | nelosten nelosien | |
partitive | nelosta | nelosia | |
inessive | nelosessa | nelosissa | |
elative | nelosesta | nelosista | |
illative | neloseen | nelosiin | |
adessive | nelosella | nelosilla | |
ablative | neloselta | nelosilta | |
allative | neloselle | nelosille | |
essive | nelosena | nelosina | |
translative | neloseksi | nelosiksi | |
abessive | nelosetta | nelositta | |
instructive | — | nelosin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
edit- (four of the same): neljä samaa
Coordinate terms
edit- (poker hand): hai, pari, kaksi paria, neljän suora, neljän väri, kolmoset, suora, väri, täyskäsi, viitoset, värisuora, kuningasvärisuora
Derived terms
editcompounds
Further reading
edit- “nelonen”, 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