kulissi
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French coulisse through Swedish kuliss.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kulissi
- (theater, often in the plural) scene, stage, act
- (figuratively) act (backdrop of deception)
- Mira ei ole tyttökaverini. Se on pelkkää kulissia.
- Mira isn't my girlfriend. It's all just an act.
- Täytyy yrittää pitää yllä kulisseja.
- Gotta try to keep up the act.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kulissi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kulissi | kulissit | ||
genitive | kulissin | kulissien | ||
partitive | kulissia | kulisseja | ||
illative | kulissiin | kulisseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kulissi | kulissit | ||
accusative | nom. | kulissi | kulissit | |
gen. | kulissin | |||
genitive | kulissin | kulissien | ||
partitive | kulissia | kulisseja | ||
inessive | kulississa | kulisseissa | ||
elative | kulissista | kulisseista | ||
illative | kulissiin | kulisseihin | ||
adessive | kulissilla | kulisseilla | ||
ablative | kulissilta | kulisseilta | ||
allative | kulissille | kulisseille | ||
essive | kulissina | kulisseina | ||
translative | kulissiksi | kulisseiksi | ||
abessive | kulissitta | kulisseitta | ||
instructive | — | kulissein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
References
[edit]- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “kulissi”, 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
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