sypressi
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Swedish cypress, from French cyprès.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sypressi
- A cypress (any of the coniferous trees in the genus Cupressus), especially the Mediterranean species Cupressus sempervirens, also known as aitosypressi, in English, graveyard cypress, Italian cypress, Mediterranean cypress, pencil pine, Spanish cypress, or Tuscan cypress.
Declension edit
Inflection of sypressi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | sypressi | sypressit | ||
genitive | sypressin | sypressien | ||
partitive | sypressiä | sypressejä | ||
illative | sypressiin | sypresseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | sypressi | sypressit | ||
accusative | nom. | sypressi | sypressit | |
gen. | sypressin | |||
genitive | sypressin | sypressien | ||
partitive | sypressiä | sypressejä | ||
inessive | sypressissä | sypresseissä | ||
elative | sypressistä | sypresseistä | ||
illative | sypressiin | sypresseihin | ||
adessive | sypressillä | sypresseillä | ||
ablative | sypressiltä | sypresseiltä | ||
allative | sypressille | sypresseille | ||
essive | sypressinä | sypresseinä | ||
translative | sypressiksi | sypresseiksi | ||
abessive | sypressittä | sypresseittä | ||
instructive | — | sypressein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “sypressi”, 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