hovimestari
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swedish hovmästare (“headwaiter”), compound of hovi (“court”) + mestari (“master”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hovimestari
- headwaiter (waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff)
- butler, majordomo (chief male servant of a household)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of hovimestari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hovimestari | hovimestarit | |
| genitive | hovimestarin | hovimestarien hovimestareiden hovimestareitten | |
| partitive | hovimestaria | hovimestareita hovimestareja | |
| illative | hovimestariin | hovimestareihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hovimestari | hovimestarit | |
| accusative | nom. | hovimestari | hovimestarit |
| gen. | hovimestarin | ||
| genitive | hovimestarin | hovimestarien hovimestareiden hovimestareitten | |
| partitive | hovimestaria | hovimestareita hovimestareja | |
| inessive | hovimestarissa | hovimestareissa | |
| elative | hovimestarista | hovimestareista | |
| illative | hovimestariin | hovimestareihin | |
| adessive | hovimestarilla | hovimestareilla | |
| ablative | hovimestarilta | hovimestareilta | |
| allative | hovimestarille | hovimestareille | |
| essive | hovimestarina | hovimestareina | |
| translative | hovimestariksi | hovimestareiksi | |
| abessive | hovimestaritta | hovimestareitta | |
| instructive | — | hovimestarein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “hovimestari”, 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 2023-07-02