rintama
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rinta + -ma. First attested in Frans Ferdinand Ahlman: Ruotsalais-suomalainen sanakirja ("Swedish-Finnish Dictionary", 1865).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rintama
- (military) front, battlefront (region or line along which opposing armies engage in combat)
- nähdään rintamalla ― see you on the frontline
- länsirintamalta ei mitään uutta ― nothing new on the western front (all quiet on the western front)
- (meteorology) front
- (military) theater
- Hänen isoisänsä oli sodassa Tyynenmeren rintamalla.
- His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of rintama (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | rintama | rintamat | ||
genitive | rintaman | rintamien | ||
partitive | rintamaa | rintamia | ||
illative | rintamaan | rintamiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | rintama | rintamat | ||
accusative | nom. | rintama | rintamat | |
gen. | rintaman | |||
genitive | rintaman | rintamien rintamainrare | ||
partitive | rintamaa | rintamia | ||
inessive | rintamassa | rintamissa | ||
elative | rintamasta | rintamista | ||
illative | rintamaan | rintamiin | ||
adessive | rintamalla | rintamilla | ||
ablative | rintamalta | rintamilta | ||
allative | rintamalle | rintamille | ||
essive | rintamana | rintamina | ||
translative | rintamaksi | rintamiksi | ||
abessive | rintamatta | rintamitta | ||
instructive | — | rintamin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
- aaltorintama
- eturintama
- itärintama
- kansanrintama
- kotirintama
- kulttuuririntama
- lakkorintama
- länsirintama
- okluusiorintama
- pilvirintama
- puuskarintama
- rintamahyökkäys
- rintamakarkuri
- rintamakirjeenvaihtaja
- rintamalinja
- rintamalohko
- rintamamies
- rintamantakainen
- rintamapalvelus
- rintamasota
- rintamasotilas
- rintamasuunta
- rintamaukkonen
- rintamaupseeri
- rintamaveteraani
- sotarintama
- säärintama
- ukkosrintama
- vapautusrintama
- vihollisrintama
Further reading[edit]
- “rintama”, 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