umpikuja
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
umpi- (“closed”) + kuja (“alley”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
umpikuja
- blind alley, dead-end, dead end, cul-de-sac, impasse (road or situation)
Declension edit
Inflection of umpikuja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | umpikuja | umpikujat | ||
genitive | umpikujan | umpikujien | ||
partitive | umpikujaa | umpikujia | ||
illative | umpikujaan | umpikujiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | umpikuja | umpikujat | ||
accusative | nom. | umpikuja | umpikujat | |
gen. | umpikujan | |||
genitive | umpikujan | umpikujien umpikujainrare | ||
partitive | umpikujaa | umpikujia | ||
inessive | umpikujassa | umpikujissa | ||
elative | umpikujasta | umpikujista | ||
illative | umpikujaan | umpikujiin | ||
adessive | umpikujalla | umpikujilla | ||
ablative | umpikujalta | umpikujilta | ||
allative | umpikujalle | umpikujille | ||
essive | umpikujana | umpikujina | ||
translative | umpikujaksi | umpikujiksi | ||
abessive | umpikujatta | umpikujitta | ||
instructive | — | umpikujin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “umpikuja”, 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 2023-07-04