kerrostalo
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kerros (“storey”) + talo (“house”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kerrostalo
- (multistorey) apartment building/block of flats
- Synonym: asuinkerrostalo
- Coordinate term: pientalo
- (broadly) multistorey building
Usage notes
[edit]In general, a residential building is a kerrostalo if the flats/apartments within it are located on top of one another, even partially, and especially if all of them are not necessarily accessible directly from the ground level; in other cases, the residential building counts as a pientalo (according to its broad definition).
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kerrostalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kerrostalo | kerrostalot | |
genitive | kerrostalon | kerrostalojen | |
partitive | kerrostaloa | kerrostaloja | |
illative | kerrostaloon | kerrostaloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kerrostalo | kerrostalot | |
accusative | nom. | kerrostalo | kerrostalot |
gen. | kerrostalon | ||
genitive | kerrostalon | kerrostalojen | |
partitive | kerrostaloa | kerrostaloja | |
inessive | kerrostalossa | kerrostaloissa | |
elative | kerrostalosta | kerrostaloista | |
illative | kerrostaloon | kerrostaloihin | |
adessive | kerrostalolla | kerrostaloilla | |
ablative | kerrostalolta | kerrostaloilta | |
allative | kerrostalolle | kerrostaloille | |
essive | kerrostalona | kerrostaloina | |
translative | kerrostaloksi | kerrostaloiksi | |
abessive | kerrostalotta | kerrostaloitta | |
instructive | — | kerrostaloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kerrostalo”, 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