funkis
English edit
Adjective edit
funkis (comparative more funkis, superlative most funkis)
- Pertaining to a Scandinavian style of functionalist architecture.
- 2010, Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Culture and Customs of Norway, page 191:
- Funkis buildings can be identified by their flat roofs, large, flat surfaces, curved walls, geometric shapes, horizontal bands of windows, flexible interiors, and lack of excess decorations.
- 2014 March 18, Richard Orange, The Guardian:
- It moves on next month to include two further nesting boxes, both fitted out in Scandinavia's trademark Funkis architectural style, where Klann hopes the show's feathered stars will hatch and rear their young.
- 2016, Steinumm Sigurðardóttir, translated by Philip Roughton, The Good Lover, World Editions, page 19:
- A two-story house, so strictly funkis that he named it monkish, and earned top points from his girlfriend for it.
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of funktionalismi + -is.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
funkis (informal)
- (architecture) Synonym of funktionalismi.
Declension edit
Inflection of funkis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | funkis | — | ||
genitive | funkiksen | — | ||
partitive | funkista | — | ||
illative | funkikseen | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | funkis | — | ||
accusative | nom. | funkis | — | |
gen. | funkiksen | |||
genitive | funkiksen | — | ||
partitive | funkista | — | ||
inessive | funkiksessa | — | ||
elative | funkiksesta | — | ||
illative | funkikseen | — | ||
adessive | funkiksella | — | ||
ablative | funkikselta | — | ||
allative | funkikselle | — | ||
essive | funkiksena | — | ||
translative | funkikseksi | — | ||
abessive | funkiksetta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “funkis”, 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
Anagrams edit
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Clipping of funktionalism + -is.
Noun edit
funkis c
- (colloquial) functionalism, a modernistic (1930s) style in architecture and interior decoration guided by function
Declension edit
Declension of funkis | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | funkis | funkisen | — | — |
Genitive | funkis | funkisens | — | — |
Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of funktionshindrad + -is.
Noun edit
funkis c
- (colloquial) a crip, a disabled person
Declension edit
Declension of funkis | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | funkis | funkisen | funkisar | funkisarna |
Genitive | funkis | funkisens | funkisars | funkisarnas |