Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly epä- + -(e)li. Cognate with Estonian ebel (genitive ebela).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈepeli/, [ˈe̞pe̞li]
- Rhymes: -epeli
- Syllabification(key): e‧pe‧li
- Hyphenation(key): epe‧li
Noun
[edit]epeli
- synonym of vintiö
- (of a person) something, in expressions like "quite the something"
- On se aika epeli.
- He's quite the something.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of epeli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | epeli | epelit | |
| genitive | epelin | epelien epeleiden epeleitten | |
| partitive | epeliä | epeleitä epelejä | |
| illative | epeliin | epeleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | epeli | epelit | |
| accusative | nom. | epeli | epelit |
| gen. | epelin | ||
| genitive | epelin | epelien epeleiden epeleitten | |
| partitive | epeliä | epeleitä epelejä | |
| inessive | epelissä | epeleissä | |
| elative | epelistä | epeleistä | |
| illative | epeliin | epeleihin | |
| adessive | epelillä | epeleillä | |
| ablative | epeliltä | epeleiltä | |
| allative | epelille | epeleille | |
| essive | epelinä | epeleinä | |
| translative | epeliksi | epeleiksi | |
| abessive | epelittä | epeleittä | |
| instructive | — | epelein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “epeli”, 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