auki
See also: Auki
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auki
- open (not closed or locked)
- Ovi oli auki.
- The door was open.
- Kauppa on auki yhdeksään.
- The shop is open until nine o'clock.
- untied, unbuttoned
- up in the air, open (not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain)
- Luulen, että voin tehdä sen nopeasti, mutta tarkka aikataulu on vielä auki.
- I think I can do it quickly, but the exact schedule is still up in the air.
- Kysymys on edelleen auki.
- The question is still open.
- on, turned on (especially of a device used to receive communications)
- Pidän veneessä aina VHF:n auki.
- When in boat, I always keep the VHF turned on.
- Keittiössä oli radio auki.
- In the kitchen, the radio was on.
- (colloquial) broke, busted, skint
- Olen aivan auki.
- I'm completely busted.
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In English, "open" is an adjective. The Finnish adjective meaning "open" is avoin.
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- “auki”, 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 2023-07-02
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auki m (genitive singular auka, nominative plural aukar)
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Finnish auki and Karelian auki.
Pronunciation edit
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/, [ˈɑu̯kʲ]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/, [ˈɑu̯ɡ̊i]
- (Hevaha) IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/, [ˈɑu̯ɡ̊i]
- Rhymes: -ɑu̯kʲ, -ɑu̯ki
- Hyphenation: au‧ki
Adverb edit
auki
- open
- (phonology) open (ending in a vowel)
- 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 55:
- Sloga ono auki, sentää ono vahva steeppeni kk (ka-lak-ka-han), ku sloga ono kiin (ka-la-kas), ni ono yks k, ono slaaboi steeppeni.
- The syllable is open, therefore it has the strong grade kk (ka-lak-ka-han), when the syllable is closed (ka-la-kas), it thus has one k, it has the weak grade.
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