bulvaani
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Swedish bulvan, from Latvian bulvāns.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulvaani
- (figuratively) front, front organization, straw man, paper man, dummy (public face of covert organisation)
- (hunting) decoy
Declension edit
Inflection of bulvaani (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | bulvaani | bulvaanit | ||
genitive | bulvaanin | bulvaanien bulvaaneiden bulvaaneitten | ||
partitive | bulvaania | bulvaaneita bulvaaneja | ||
illative | bulvaaniin | bulvaaneihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | bulvaani | bulvaanit | ||
accusative | nom. | bulvaani | bulvaanit | |
gen. | bulvaanin | |||
genitive | bulvaanin | bulvaanien bulvaaneiden bulvaaneitten | ||
partitive | bulvaania | bulvaaneita bulvaaneja | ||
inessive | bulvaanissa | bulvaaneissa | ||
elative | bulvaanista | bulvaaneista | ||
illative | bulvaaniin | bulvaaneihin | ||
adessive | bulvaanilla | bulvaaneilla | ||
ablative | bulvaanilta | bulvaaneilta | ||
allative | bulvaanille | bulvaaneille | ||
essive | bulvaanina | bulvaaneina | ||
translative | bulvaaniksi | bulvaaneiksi | ||
abessive | bulvaanitta | bulvaaneitta | ||
instructive | — | bulvaanein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “bulvaani”, 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 2023-07-02