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Definition 2025
osasto
osasto
Finnish
Noun
osasto
- A department.
- A compartment.
- Especially in military use, a unit.
- (slang) An area, field of activity; always compounded, no direct translation.
- Miten sulla menee seksiosastolla?
- How's your sex-life been lately? (lit.: How are you doing in the sex department?)
- Miten sulla menee seksiosastolla?
Declension
| Inflection of osasto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | osasto | osastot | |
| genitive | osaston | osastojen | |
| partitive | osastoa | osastoja | |
| illative | osastoon | osastoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | osasto | osastot | |
| accusative | nom. | osasto | osastot |
| gen. | osaston | ||
| genitive | osaston | osastojen | |
| partitive | osastoa | osastoja | |
| inessive | osastossa | osastoissa | |
| elative | osastosta | osastoista | |
| illative | osastoon | osastoihin | |
| adessive | osastolla | osastoilla | |
| ablative | osastolta | osastoilta | |
| allative | osastolle | osastoille | |
| essive | osastona | osastoina | |
| translative | osastoksi | osastoiksi | |
| instructive | — | osastoin | |
| abessive | osastotta | osastoitta | |
| comitative | — | osastoineen | |
Compounds
- joukko-osasto
- osastonhoitaja
- osastopäällikkö
- teho-osasto