-ska
FinnishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
SuffixEdit
-ska (front vowel harmony variant -skä)
- Forms diminutive nouns.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Swedish -ska, as used in older Swedish as a suffix used to derive feminine nouns (such as sångare → sångerska, major → majorska).
SuffixEdit
-ska (front vowel harmony variant -skä)
- (colloquial, archaic, now humoristic) Used to transform husband's family name or title to a term for addressing or speaking of a married woman. Used especially with family names ending with -nen and titles ending -ri.
AnagramsEdit
Lower SorbianEdit
SuffixEdit
-ska f
- used to form the names of countries and regions
Derived termsEdit
PolishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьskъ.
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ska
- feminine nominative singular of -ski
- forms surnames
- forms adjectives
DeclensionEdit
Declension of -ska
| case | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine personal/animate | masculine inanimate | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | ||
| nominative, vocative | -ski | -skie | -ska | -scy | -skie | ||
| genitive | -skiego | -skiej | -skich | ||||
| dative | -skiemu | -skim | |||||
| accusative | -skiego | -ski | -skie | -ską | -skich | -skie | |
| instrumental | -skim | -skimi | |||||
| locative | -skiej | -skich | |||||
| old dative | -sku | ||||||
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
SlovakEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
-ska
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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SuffixEdit
-ska f
- Signifies a female (particularly after professions and nationalities).
Usage notesEdit
In older practice, a husband's title suffixed with -ska formed a title for his wife. For example, the wife of a captain (kapten) would be a kaptenska. This practice gradually began dying out around the 1950s. See the article on du-reformen on Wikipedia for more information.