promille
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See also: Promille
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧mil‧le
Noun[edit]
promille n (uncountable)
See also[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swedish promille, from German Promille, from Latin per mille.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
promille
- per mille, permille, per mil, per mill, (one) thousandth (1/1000th part of something)
Usage notes[edit]
- In English, the equivalents of this term are rarely used, even so that many dictionaries do not list them at all.
- A quite common use for promille in Finnish is to refer to blood alcohol content (BAC), e.g. 1 ‰ (promille(a)), equal to 0.1% (e.g. US) or 100 mg% (e.g. UK).
- kolmen promillen humala ― intoxication/drunkenness at a level of 3 ‰ (e.g. US: 0.3 BAC, e.g. UK: 300 mg%)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of promille (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | promille | promillet | ||
genitive | promillen | promillejen | ||
partitive | promillea | promilleja | ||
illative | promilleen | promilleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | promille | promillet | ||
accusative | nom. | promille | promillet | |
gen. | promillen | |||
genitive | promillen | promillejen promilleinrare | ||
partitive | promillea | promilleja | ||
inessive | promillessa | promilleissa | ||
elative | promillesta | promilleista | ||
illative | promilleen | promilleihin | ||
adessive | promillella | promilleilla | ||
ablative | promillelta | promilleilta | ||
allative | promillelle | promilleille | ||
essive | promillena | promilleina | ||
translative | promilleksi | promilleiksi | ||
abessive | promilletta | promilleitta | ||
instructive | — | promillein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “promille”, 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
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
promille c
- permille (per thousand)
Declension[edit]
Declension of promille | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | promille | promillen | promille | promillena |
Genitive | promilles | promillens | promilles | promillenas |
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