sotku
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
sotkea (“to mess up”) + -u. The military meaning is also by abbreviation from sotilaskoti.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sotku
- mess, hash, hodgepodge (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
- mess, tangle, snafu, hodgepodge (something in disarray)
- (military slang) Synonym of sotilaskoti
Declension[edit]
Inflection of sotku (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | sotku | sotkut | ||
genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | ||
partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | ||
illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | sotku | sotkut | ||
accusative | nom. | sotku | sotkut | |
gen. | sotkun | |||
genitive | sotkun | sotkujen | ||
partitive | sotkua | sotkuja | ||
inessive | sotkussa | sotkuissa | ||
elative | sotkusta | sotkuista | ||
illative | sotkuun | sotkuihin | ||
adessive | sotkulla | sotkuilla | ||
ablative | sotkulta | sotkuilta | ||
allative | sotkulle | sotkuille | ||
essive | sotkuna | sotkuina | ||
translative | sotkuksi | sotkuiksi | ||
abessive | sotkutta | sotkuitta | ||
instructive | — | sotkuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
Further reading[edit]
- “sotku”, 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