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hukka
hukka
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hukka (“loss, ruin”), with uncertain links to Permic and Germanic languages.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: huk‧ka
- Rhymes: -ukːɑ
- IPA(key): [ˈhukːɑ]
Noun
hukka
- (familiarly) wolf
- doom, peril (adverse or terrible fate)
- Nyt meidät hukka perii!
- We are doomed!
- Nyt meidät hukka perii!
- waste, loss; often used as head of compound terms, in which the modifier reveals what is lost, e.g. rahanhukka (“waste of money”), verenhukka (“blood loss”); see also hukassa, hukkaan.
Declension
| Inflection of hukka (Kotus type 10/koira, kk-k gradation) | |||
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| nominative | hukka | hukat | |
| genitive | hukan | hukkien | |
| partitive | hukkaa | hukkia | |
| illative | hukkaan | hukkiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hukka | hukat | |
| accusative | nom. | hukka | hukat |
| gen. | hukan | ||
| genitive | hukan | hukkien hukkainrare |
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| partitive | hukkaa | hukkia | |
| inessive | hukassa | hukissa | |
| elative | hukasta | hukista | |
| illative | hukkaan | hukkiin | |
| adessive | hukalla | hukilla | |
| ablative | hukalta | hukilta | |
| allative | hukalle | hukille | |
| essive | hukkana | hukkina | |
| translative | hukaksi | hukiksi | |
| instructive | — | hukin | |
| abessive | hukatta | hukitta | |
| comitative | — | hukkineen | |
Synonyms
- (wolf): susi
Derived terms
Terms derived from hukka
Compounds
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Related terms
- hukkua
- hukuksissa
- hukuttaa
- hukuttautua