nuuska
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely a back-formation from nuuskia, further influenced by Swedish snus (“snuff tobacco”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuuska
- snuff (tobacco), snus
- (idiomatic) splinters, wreck; together with the adverb tuusan as fortifier used in two expressions
- olla tuusan nuuskana
- to be totally wrecked
- mennä tuusan nuuskaksi
- to become totally wrecked
- olla tuusan nuuskana
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of nuuska (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nuuska | nuuskat | |
| genitive | nuuskan | nuuskien | |
| partitive | nuuskaa | nuuskia | |
| illative | nuuskaan | nuuskiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | nuuska | nuuskat | |
| accusative | nom. | nuuska | nuuskat |
| gen. | nuuskan | ||
| genitive | nuuskan | nuuskien nuuskain rare | |
| partitive | nuuskaa | nuuskia | |
| inessive | nuuskassa | nuuskissa | |
| elative | nuuskasta | nuuskista | |
| illative | nuuskaan | nuuskiin | |
| adessive | nuuskalla | nuuskilla | |
| ablative | nuuskalta | nuuskilta | |
| allative | nuuskalle | nuuskille | |
| essive | nuuskana | nuuskina | |
| translative | nuuskaksi | nuuskiksi | |
| abessive | nuuskatta | nuuskitta | |
| instructive | — | nuuskin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “nuuska”, 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