lihapulla
Finnish
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Etymology
[edit]Compound of liha (“meat”) + pulla (“bun”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lihapulla
- meatball
- Synonym: lihapyörykkä
- (by extension, figuratively) a fat person
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of lihapulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | lihapulla | lihapullat | |
| genitive | lihapullan | lihapullien | |
| partitive | lihapullaa | lihapullia | |
| illative | lihapullaan | lihapulliin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lihapulla | lihapullat | |
| accusative | nom. | lihapulla | lihapullat |
| gen. | lihapullan | ||
| genitive | lihapullan | lihapullien lihapullain rare | |
| partitive | lihapullaa | lihapullia | |
| inessive | lihapullassa | lihapullissa | |
| elative | lihapullasta | lihapullista | |
| illative | lihapullaan | lihapulliin | |
| adessive | lihapullalla | lihapullilla | |
| ablative | lihapullalta | lihapullilta | |
| allative | lihapullalle | lihapullille | |
| essive | lihapullana | lihapullina | |
| translative | lihapullaksi | lihapulliksi | |
| abessive | lihapullatta | lihapullitta | |
| instructive | — | lihapullin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “lihapulla”, 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