Espoo
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Espoo
English
Proper noun
Espoo
- A city and municipality of Uusimaa, Finland.
Translations
city of Finland
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish Esbo, possibly from a compound of äspe (“aspen grove”) + å (“river”). Lars Huldén has presented an alternative etymology, deriving it from a diminutive of the given name Esbjörn.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Espoo
- Espoo (a city and municipality of Uusimaa, Finland)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Espoo" is Espoossa.
| Inflection of Espoo (Kotus type 17/vapaa, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Espoo | — | |
| genitive | Espoon | — | |
| partitive | Espoota | — | |
| illative | Espooseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Espoo | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Espoo | — |
| gen. | Espoon | ||
| genitive | Espoon | — | |
| partitive | Espoota | — | |
| inessive | Espoossa | — | |
| elative | Espoosta | — | |
| illative | Espooseen | — | |
| adessive | Espoolla | — | |
| ablative | Espoolta | — | |
| allative | Espoolle | — | |
| essive | Espoona | — | |
| translative | Espooksi | — | |
| abessive | Espootta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Espoo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Espoo n (indeclinable)
- Espoo (a city and municipality of Uusimaa, Finland)
Further reading
- Espoo in PWN's encyclopedia
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Espoo
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Espoo | - |
| definite accusative | Espoo'yu | - |
| dative | Espoo'ya | - |
| locative | Espoo'da | - |
| ablative | Espoo'dan | - |
| genitive | Espoo'nun | - |