karpaasi
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Possibly Swedish karbas; originally Helsinki slang in the form karbaasi and repopularized by the Finnish skier Jari Isometsä in the 1990s.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
karpaasi (colloquial)
- big, sturdy man
Declension edit
Inflection of karpaasi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | karpaasi | karpaasit | ||
genitive | karpaasin | karpaasien | ||
partitive | karpaasia | karpaaseja | ||
illative | karpaasiin | karpaaseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | karpaasi | karpaasit | ||
accusative | nom. | karpaasi | karpaasit | |
gen. | karpaasin | |||
genitive | karpaasin | karpaasien | ||
partitive | karpaasia | karpaaseja | ||
inessive | karpaasissa | karpaaseissa | ||
elative | karpaasista | karpaaseista | ||
illative | karpaasiin | karpaaseihin | ||
adessive | karpaasilla | karpaaseilla | ||
ablative | karpaasilta | karpaaseilta | ||
allative | karpaasille | karpaaseille | ||
essive | karpaasina | karpaaseina | ||
translative | karpaasiksi | karpaaseiksi | ||
abessive | karpaasitta | karpaaseitta | ||
instructive | — | karpaasein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “karpaasi”, 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