sordiino
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sordiino
- (music) mute, sordine (device for dulling the sound of an instrument)
- (figuratively, idiomatic) sordiino päällä : unable or unwilling to speak, quiet, uninformative, keeping a low profile
- Pääministerillä on sordiino päällä pakolaiskysymyksessä.
- The prime minister is keeping a low profile on the refugee issue.
Declension edit
Inflection of sordiino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | sordiino | sordiinot | ||
genitive | sordiinon | sordiinojen | ||
partitive | sordiinoa | sordiinoja | ||
illative | sordiinoon | sordiinoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | sordiino | sordiinot | ||
accusative | nom. | sordiino | sordiinot | |
gen. | sordiinon | |||
genitive | sordiinon | sordiinojen | ||
partitive | sordiinoa | sordiinoja | ||
inessive | sordiinossa | sordiinoissa | ||
elative | sordiinosta | sordiinoista | ||
illative | sordiinoon | sordiinoihin | ||
adessive | sordiinolla | sordiinoilla | ||
ablative | sordiinolta | sordiinoilta | ||
allative | sordiinolle | sordiinoille | ||
essive | sordiinona | sordiinoina | ||
translative | sordiinoksi | sordiinoiksi | ||
abessive | sordiinotta | sordiinoitta | ||
instructive | — | sordiinoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
References edit
Mute (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading edit
- “sordiino”, 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