buuri
Farefare edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Moore buudu (“race, tribe, kind, species, ethnicity”)
Noun edit
buuri
- species, kind, race, ethnicity, tribe
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Afrikaans Boer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
buuri
Declension edit
Inflection of buuri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | buuri | buurit | ||
genitive | buurin | buurien | ||
partitive | buuria | buureja | ||
illative | buuriin | buureihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | buuri | buurit | ||
accusative | nom. | buuri | buurit | |
gen. | buurin | |||
genitive | buurin | buurien | ||
partitive | buuria | buureja | ||
inessive | buurissa | buureissa | ||
elative | buurista | buureista | ||
illative | buuriin | buureihin | ||
adessive | buurilla | buureilla | ||
ablative | buurilta | buureilta | ||
allative | buurille | buureille | ||
essive | buurina | buureina | ||
translative | buuriksi | buureiksi | ||
abessive | buuritta | buureitta | ||
instructive | — | buurein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “buuri”, 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