kortteli
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish qvart (“one fourth”).
Noun
kortteli
- A block or city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets).
- Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.
- I'm just going for a walk around the block.
- Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.
- A block (distance from one street to another in a city).
- An obsolete Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters.
- An obsolete Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters. To distinguish it from its Scandinavian counterpart it was often called venäläinen kortteli.
- An obsolete unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters.
Declension
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Declension of kortteli (type paperi)
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Synonyms
- (distance): kadunväli
- (Russian unit of length): setvertti