kepponen
Finnish
editEtymology
editPossibly from dialectal keppeä, keppelä (“agile, nimble”) (possibly akin to kepeä) + -onen.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkepponen
- practical joke
- Synonyms: jekku, kuje, pila
- karkki tai kepponen ― trick or treat (literally, “candy or practical joke”)
Declension
editInflection of kepponen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kepponen | kepposet | |
genitive | kepposen | kepposten kepposien | |
partitive | kepposta | kepposia | |
illative | kepposeen | kepposiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kepponen | kepposet | |
accusative | nom. | kepponen | kepposet |
gen. | kepposen | ||
genitive | kepposen | kepposten kepposien | |
partitive | kepposta | kepposia | |
inessive | kepposessa | kepposissa | |
elative | kepposesta | kepposista | |
illative | kepposeen | kepposiin | |
adessive | kepposella | kepposilla | |
ablative | kepposelta | kepposilta | |
allative | kepposelle | kepposille | |
essive | kepposena | kepposina | |
translative | kepposeksi | kepposiksi | |
abessive | kepposetta | keppositta | |
instructive | — | kepposin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “kepponen”, 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