pakkopulla
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pakkopulla
- The obligatory bun. (Finnish custom is that visitors to a household being visited bring food to be shared with the hosts. Typically this is in the form of a cinnamon bun to be enjoyed with coffee provided by the hosts)
- (by extension and playfully) any kind of obligatory task that is reluctantly carried out, such as filing a tax return or shovelling fallen snow.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of pakkopulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pakkopulla | pakkopullat | |
| genitive | pakkopullan | pakkopullien | |
| partitive | pakkopullaa | pakkopullia | |
| illative | pakkopullaan | pakkopulliin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pakkopulla | pakkopullat | |
| accusative | nom. | pakkopulla | pakkopullat |
| gen. | pakkopullan | ||
| genitive | pakkopullan | pakkopullien pakkopullain rare | |
| partitive | pakkopullaa | pakkopullia | |
| inessive | pakkopullassa | pakkopullissa | |
| elative | pakkopullasta | pakkopullista | |
| illative | pakkopullaan | pakkopulliin | |
| adessive | pakkopullalla | pakkopullilla | |
| ablative | pakkopullalta | pakkopullilta | |
| allative | pakkopullalle | pakkopullille | |
| essive | pakkopullana | pakkopullina | |
| translative | pakkopullaksi | pakkopulliksi | |
| abessive | pakkopullatta | pakkopullitta | |
| instructive | — | pakkopullin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “pakkopulla”, 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