taajama
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]taaja (“dense”) + -ma; from the earlier concept taajaväkinen yhdyskunta ("densely-populated place"; compare Swedish tätort); coined by Finnish linguist Hannes Teppo in 1940.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]taajama
- A built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village) (per Finnish and Swedish definition a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres between the buildings; if there is no chain of buildings closer than that to each other between two places, those places are not located in the same locality)
- Synonym: pokosta (dialectal)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of taajama (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | taajama | taajamat | ||
genitive | taajaman | taajamien | ||
partitive | taajamaa | taajamia | ||
illative | taajamaan | taajamiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | taajama | taajamat | ||
accusative | nom. | taajama | taajamat | |
gen. | taajaman | |||
genitive | taajaman | taajamien taajamain rare | ||
partitive | taajamaa | taajamia | ||
inessive | taajamassa | taajamissa | ||
elative | taajamasta | taajamista | ||
illative | taajamaan | taajamiin | ||
adessive | taajamalla | taajamilla | ||
ablative | taajamalta | taajamilta | ||
allative | taajamalle | taajamille | ||
essive | taajamana | taajamina | ||
translative | taajamaksi | taajamiksi | ||
abessive | taajamatta | taajamitta | ||
instructive | — | taajamin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “taajama”, 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