tenu
See also: ténu
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
tenu
- imperative of teni
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Probably from denaturoitu (“denatured”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tenu
- (slang, dated) Synonym of taloussprii
- (colloquial, by extension) methylated spirit (denatured strong alcohol used e.g. as fuel)
Declension edit
Inflection of tenu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tenu | tenut | ||
genitive | tenun | tenujen | ||
partitive | tenua | tenuja | ||
illative | tenuun | tenuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tenu | tenut | ||
accusative | nom. | tenu | tenut | |
gen. | tenun | |||
genitive | tenun | tenujen | ||
partitive | tenua | tenuja | ||
inessive | tenussa | tenuissa | ||
elative | tenusta | tenuista | ||
illative | tenuun | tenuihin | ||
adessive | tenulla | tenuilla | ||
ablative | tenulta | tenuilta | ||
allative | tenulle | tenuille | ||
essive | tenuna | tenuina | ||
translative | tenuksi | tenuiksi | ||
abessive | tenutta | tenuitta | ||
instructive | — | tenuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “tenu”, 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
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
tenu (feminine tenue, masculine plural tenus, feminine plural tenues)
- past participle of tenir
Further reading edit
- “tenu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.