fotokas

Estonian

A camera.

From foto +‎ kas.

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fotokas (genitive fotoka, partitive fotokat)

(informal, colloquial) a camera (a device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs)
Synonyms: fotoaparaat, fotokaamera, kaamera

võtsin õnneks fotoka kaasa
fortunately, I took a photo camera with me

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Declension of fotokas (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		fotokas	fotokad
accusative	nom.	fotokas
accusative	gen.	fotoka
genitive		fotoka	fotokate
partitive		fotokat	fotokaid
illative		fotokasse	fotokatesse fotokaisse
inessive		fotokas	fotokates fotokais
elative		fotokast	fotokatest fotokaist
allative		fotokale	fotokatele fotokaile
adessive		fotokal	fotokatel fotokail
ablative		fotokalt	fotokatelt fotokailt
translative		fotokaks	fotokateks fotokaiks
terminative		fotokani	fotokateni
essive		fotokana	fotokatena
abessive		fotokata	fotokateta
comitative		fotokaga	fotokatega

fotokas in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
“fotokas”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
“fotokas”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN