jääkäripataljoona
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
jääkäri (“jaeger, rifleman”) + pataljoona (“battalion”)
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈjæːkæriˌpɑtɑljoːnɑ/, [ˈjæːk̟æriˌpɑ̝t̪ɑ̝lˌjo̞ːnɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -oːnɑ
- Syllabification(key): jää‧kä‧ri‧pa‧tal‧joo‧na
Noun edit
jääkäripataljoona
- (historical) jaeger battalion (the 27th Jaeger Battalion of the German Army in WWI, consisting of Finnish volunteers who had secretly travelled to Germany in order to obtain military training, with the final aim of liberating Finland from the Russian rule)
- (military) jaeger battalion (a rifleman battalion in the Finnish army)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
- (battalion in the German Army): jääkäripataljoona 27 (kaksikymmentäseitsemän)
Further reading edit
- “jääkäripataljoona”, 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