knoppologia
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowing from Swedish knappologi, coined by August Strindberg in 1884 in his short story De lycksaliges ö in which one of the characters develops a quasiscientific classification system for buttons, knapp in Swedish.
Noun edit
knoppologia
- trivia (items of unimportant information collectively)
Declension edit
Inflection of knoppologia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | knoppologia | knoppologiat | ||
genitive | knoppologian | knoppologioiden knoppologioitten | ||
partitive | knoppologiaa | knoppologioita | ||
illative | knoppologiaan | knoppologioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | knoppologia | knoppologiat | ||
accusative | nom. | knoppologia | knoppologiat | |
gen. | knoppologian | |||
genitive | knoppologian | knoppologioiden knoppologioitten knoppologiainrare | ||
partitive | knoppologiaa | knoppologioita | ||
inessive | knoppologiassa | knoppologioissa | ||
elative | knoppologiasta | knoppologioista | ||
illative | knoppologiaan | knoppologioihin | ||
adessive | knoppologialla | knoppologioilla | ||
ablative | knoppologialta | knoppologioilta | ||
allative | knoppologialle | knoppologioille | ||
essive | knoppologiana | knoppologioina | ||
translative | knoppologiaksi | knoppologioiksi | ||
abessive | knoppologiatta | knoppologioitta | ||
instructive | — | knoppologioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “knoppologia”, 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 2023-07-01
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
knoppologia