prima vista
Finnish
editEtymology
edit< Italian prima (“first”) vista (“sight”)
Noun
editprima vista
- (music) sight reading (act of performing a piece of music straight from the music notation without rehearsal)
Usage notes
edit- May be used adverbially with the Italian preposition "a":
- Kuoro esitti viimeisen kappaleen a prima vista.
- The choir performed the last piece in sight reading.
Declension
editInflection of prima vista (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | prima vista | prima vistat | |
genitive | prima vistan | prima vistojen | |
partitive | prima vistaa | prima vistoja | |
illative | prima vistaan | prima vistoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | prima vista | prima vistat | |
accusative | nom. | prima vista | prima vistat |
gen. | prima vistan | ||
genitive | prima vistan | prima vistojen prima vistain rare | |
partitive | prima vistaa | prima vistoja | |
inessive | prima vistassa | prima vistoissa | |
elative | prima vistasta | prima vistoista | |
illative | prima vistaan | prima vistoihin | |
adessive | prima vistalla | prima vistoilla | |
ablative | prima vistalta | prima vistoilta | |
allative | prima vistalle | prima vistoille | |
essive | prima vistana | prima vistoina | |
translative | prima vistaksi | prima vistoiksi | |
abessive | prima vistatta | prima vistoitta | |
instructive | — | prima vistoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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Further reading
edit- “prima vista”, 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 2023-07-03