surkea
Finnish
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editsurkea (comparative surkeampi, superlative surkein)
- miserable, hopeless, lousy, terrible (remarkably bad)
- miserable, wretched, mean, contemptible
- pitiful, rueful, miserable
- miserable (in a state of misery, very sad)
- squalid (very unpleasant)
- regrettable, lamentable, very unfortunate
Declension
edit| Inflection of surkea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | surkea | surkeat | |
| genitive | surkean | surkeiden surkeitten | |
| partitive | surkeaa surkeata |
surkeita | |
| illative | surkeaan | surkeisiin surkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | surkea | surkeat | |
| accusative | nom. | surkea | surkeat |
| gen. | surkean | ||
| genitive | surkean | surkeiden surkeitten surkeain rare | |
| partitive | surkeaa surkeata |
surkeita | |
| inessive | surkeassa | surkeissa | |
| elative | surkeasta | surkeista | |
| illative | surkeaan | surkeisiin surkeihin | |
| adessive | surkealla | surkeilla | |
| ablative | surkealta | surkeilta | |
| allative | surkealle | surkeille | |
| essive | surkeana | surkeina | |
| translative | surkeaksi | surkeiksi | |
| abessive | surkeatta | surkeitta | |
| instructive | — | surkein | |
| comitative | — | surkeine | |
Derived terms
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Further reading
edit- “surkea”, 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