spesies
Afrikaans edit
Noun edit
spesies
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Coined by the Swedish Neogrammarian linguist Adolf Noreen in 1904, adopted into Finnish grammatical vocabulary in 1915.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spesies (dated)
- (grammar) definiteness or indefiniteness (the quality of a language of expressing the nouns and noun phrases in either definite or indefinite form; the Indoeuropean languages generally have this quality whereas some others, like the Finno-Ugric languages, don't)
Usage notes edit
- Biological species is laji in Finnish.
Declension edit
Inflection of spesies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | spesies | spesiekset | ||
genitive | spesieksen | spesiesten spesieksien | ||
partitive | spesiestä | spesieksiä | ||
illative | spesiekseen | spesieksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | spesies | spesiekset | ||
accusative | nom. | spesies | spesiekset | |
gen. | spesieksen | |||
genitive | spesieksen | spesiesten spesieksien | ||
partitive | spesiestä | spesieksiä | ||
inessive | spesieksessä | spesieksissä | ||
elative | spesieksestä | spesieksistä | ||
illative | spesiekseen | spesieksiin | ||
adessive | spesieksellä | spesieksillä | ||
ablative | spesiekseltä | spesieksiltä | ||
allative | spesiekselle | spesieksille | ||
essive | spesieksenä | spesieksinä | ||
translative | spesiekseksi | spesieksiksi | ||
abessive | spesieksettä | spesieksittä | ||
instructive | — | spesieksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Further reading edit
- “spesies”, 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
- "Definiteness in Finnish", article by Andrew Chesterman [2]
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin speciēs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spesies (plural spesies-spesies, first-person possessive spesiesku, second-person possessive spesiesmu, third-person possessive spesiesnya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “spesies” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English species, from Latin speciēs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spesies (Jawi spelling سڤيسيس, plural spesies-spesies, informal 1st possessive spesiesku, 2nd possessive spesiesmu, 3rd possessive spesiesnya)
Further reading edit
- “spesies” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.