Helsinki

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
• enPR: hělʹsǐngʹkē

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Helsinki

2. The capital city of Finland

   Synonym: (obsolete) Helsingfors

   • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[1], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 376–377:

     My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.

• Helsinkian

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

• Helsinkiër
• Helsinkies

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Helsinki (?)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

   Synonym: (dated, rare) Helsingfors

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛlˈsiŋ.ki/, (less common) /ˈɦɛlˌsiŋ.ki/

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• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki n

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

• Elsenfors (obsolete)

Borrowed from vernacular Swedish Helsinge, itself probably derived from *hälsing- (found in e.g. Hälsingland, Helsingborg ~ Hälsingborg), a derivative of hals (literally “neck”) (perhaps Old Swedish hals > hälsinge), here referring to a narrow part of a flowing body of water. Helsinki is located on the delta of the river Vantaa, so the name would refer to the rapids of that river. Indeed, Vanhankaupunginkoski, the rapids around which Helsinki was founded, was called Helsinge fors (literally “Helsinki rapids”) in older sources; this is also the origin of the current Swedish name Helsingfors.

In the past the city was considered to have been named after the Swedish province of Hälsingland, on the grounds that Helsinki would have initially been settled by people from Hälsingland, but this is not held to be likely anymore (instead, the largest group seems to have been those from Uppland).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelsiŋki/, [ˈhe̞ls̠iŋk̟i]

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• Rhymes: -elsiŋki
• Hyphenation^(key): Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) Hki, (colloquial, Helsinki) Stadi, (colloquial, rest of Finland) Hesa

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Helsinki" is Helsingissä.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɛl.siŋ.ki/

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Helsinki f

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

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Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛlsiŋki]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
• Rhymes: -ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Helsinki	—
accusative	Helsinkit	—
dative	Helsinkinek	—
instrumental	Helsinkivel	—
causal-final	Helsinkiért	—
translative	Helsinkivé	—
terminative	Helsinkiig	—
essive-formal	Helsinkiként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Helsinkiben	—
superessive	Helsinkin	—
adessive	Helsinkinél	—
illative	Helsinkibe	—
sublative	Helsinkire	—
allative	Helsinkihez	—
elative	Helsinkiből	—
delative	Helsinkiről	—
ablative	Helsinkitől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Helsinkié	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Helsinkiéi	—

Possessive forms of Helsinki
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Helsinkim	—
2nd person sing.	Helsinkid	—
3rd person sing.	Helsinkije	—
1st person plural	Helsinkink	—
2nd person plural	Helsinkitek	—
3rd person plural	Helsinkijük	—

• helsinki

Helsinki n

1. Helsinki (the capital of Finland)

Helsinki m pl (1st declension)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /xɛlˈsiŋ.ki/

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• Rhymes: -iŋki
• Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki
• Homophone: helsinki

Helsinki nvir pl (related adjective helsiński)

1. Helsinki (the capital and largest city of Finland)
2. Helsinki (the capital and largest city of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Helsinki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Helsinki in PWN's encyclopedia

Helsinki f

1. Alternative form of Helsinque

Hèlsinki m (Cyrillic spelling Хѐлсинки)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛɫsiŋki/

Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

• Helsinčan m
• Helsinčanka f
• helsinský

• “Helsinki”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /xelˈsinki/ [xelˈsĩŋ.ki]
• Rhymes: -inki
• Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki ?

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

From Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): [hælˈsinci]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

• Helsinkili

Helsinki (genitive Helsinki, partitive Helsinkit)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

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