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koukku
koukku
Finnish
Noun
koukku
- hook (rod bent into a curved shape)
- hook (fishhook)
- hook (boxing punch)
- (idiomatic) addiction; used in inessive, elative and illative similarly to English hooked (“unable to resist or cease doing”):
- Olen koukussa Conan O'Brienin ohjelmaan.
- I'm hooked on the Conan O' Brien show.
- Olen koukussa Conan O'Brienin ohjelmaan.
- (typography) cedilla, hook (loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters)
- (slang) police
Declension
Inflection of koukku (Kotus type 1/valo, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | koukku | koukut | |
genitive | koukun | koukkujen | |
partitive | koukkua | koukkuja | |
illative | koukkuun | koukkuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | koukku | koukut | |
accusative | nom. | koukku | koukut |
gen. | koukun | ||
genitive | koukun | koukkujen | |
partitive | koukkua | koukkuja | |
inessive | koukussa | koukuissa | |
elative | koukusta | koukuista | |
illative | koukkuun | koukkuihin | |
adessive | koukulla | koukuilla | |
ablative | koukulta | koukuilta | |
allative | koukulle | koukuille | |
essive | koukkuna | koukkuina | |
translative | koukuksi | koukuiksi | |
instructive | — | koukuin | |
abessive | koukutta | koukuitta | |
comitative | — | koukkuineen |
Synonyms
- (fishhook): ongenkoukku
- (cedilla): sedilji
- (police): poliisi
Derived terms
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