Helsinki
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Helsinki
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki
- The capital city of Finland
- Synonym: (obsolete) Helsingfors
- 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 376–377:
- My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.
Derived terms
Translations
the capital city of Finland
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Afrikaans
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Derived terms
Azerbaijani
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Breton
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Danish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki (?)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
- Synonym: (dated, rare) Helsingfors
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki n
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Synonyms
- Elsenfors (obsolete)
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from vernacular Swedish Helsinge, itself probably derived from *hälsing- (found in e.g. Hälsingland, Helsingborg ~ Hälsingborg), a derivative of hals (literally “neck”) (perhaps Old Swedish hals > hälsinge), here referring to a narrow part of a flowing body of water. Helsinki is located on the delta of the river Vantaa, so the name would refer to the rapids of that river. Indeed, Vanhankaupunginkoski, the rapids around which Helsinki was founded, was called Helsinge fors (literally “Helsinki rapids”) in older sources; this is also the origin of the current Swedish name Helsingfors.
In the past the city was considered to have been named after the Swedish province of Hälsingland, on the grounds that Helsinki would have initially been settled by people from Hälsingland, but this is not held to be likely anymore (instead, the largest group seems to have been those from Uppland).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Helsinki" is Helsingissä.
| Inflection of Helsinki (Kotus type 5*G/risti, nk-ng gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Helsinki | — | |
| genitive | Helsingin | — | |
| partitive | Helsinkiä | — | |
| illative | Helsinkiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Helsinki | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Helsinki | — |
| gen. | Helsingin | ||
| genitive | Helsingin | — | |
| partitive | Helsinkiä | — | |
| inessive | Helsingissä | — | |
| elative | Helsingistä | — | |
| illative | Helsinkiin | — | |
| adessive | Helsingillä | — | |
| ablative | Helsingiltä | — | |
| allative | Helsingille | — | |
| essive | Helsinkinä | — | |
| translative | Helsingiksi | — | |
| abessive | Helsingittä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɛl.siŋ.ki/
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Proper noun
Helsinki f
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Helsinki | — |
| accusative | Helsinkit | — |
| dative | Helsinkinek | — |
| instrumental | Helsinkivel | — |
| causal-final | Helsinkiért | — |
| translative | Helsinkivé | — |
| terminative | Helsinkiig | — |
| essive-formal | Helsinkiként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Helsinkiben | — |
| superessive | Helsinkin | — |
| adessive | Helsinkinél | — |
| illative | Helsinkibe | — |
| sublative | Helsinkire | — |
| allative | Helsinkihez | — |
| elative | Helsinkiből | — |
| delative | Helsinkiről | — |
| ablative | Helsinkitől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Helsinkié | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Helsinkiéi | — |
| Possessive forms of Helsinki | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Helsinkim | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Helsinkid | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Helsinkije | — |
| 1st person plural | Helsinkink | — |
| 2nd person plural | Helsinkitek | — |
| 3rd person plural | Helsinkijük | — |
Derived terms
Icelandic
Proper noun
Helsinki n
Latvian
Proper noun
Helsinki m pl (1st declension)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
Declension of Helsinki (1st declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | — | Helsinki |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | — | Helsinkus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | — | Helsinku |
| dative (datīvs) | — | Helsinkiem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | — | Helsinkiem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | — | Helsinkos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | Helsinki |
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki nvir pl (related adjective helsiński)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Uusimaa, Finland)
Declension
Declension of Helsinki
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Helsinki |
| genitive | Helsinek |
| dative | Helsinkom |
| accusative | Helsinki |
| instrumental | Helsinkami |
| locative | Helsinkach |
| vocative | Helsinki |
Derived terms
nouns
Further reading
Portuguese
Proper noun
Helsinki f
- Alternative form of Helsinque
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Hèlsinki m (Cyrillic spelling Хѐлсинки)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
Declension of Helsinki
| plurale tantum | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Helsinki |
| genitive | Helsínk |
| dative | Helsinkám |
| accusative | Helsinki |
| locative | Helsinkách |
| instrumental | Helsinkami |
Derived terms
References
- “Helsinki”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki ?
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Related terms
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helsinki
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
Declension of Helsinki
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Helsinki | Helsinkiler / Helsinki'ler |
| accusative | Helsinki'yi | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
| dative | Helsinki'ye | Helsinkilere / Helsinki'lere |
| locative | Helsinki'de | Helsinkilerde / Helsinki'lerde |
| ablative | Helsinki'den | Helsinkilerden / Helsinki'lerden |
| genitive | Helsinki'nin | Helsinkilerin / Helsinki'lerin |
Possession of Helsinki
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| benim (my) | Helsinki'm | Helsinkilerim / Helsinki'lerim |
| senin (your) | Helsinki'n | Helsinkilerin / Helsinki'lerin |
| onun (his/her/its) | Helsinki'si | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
| bizim (our) | Helsinki'miz | Helsinkilerimiz / Helsinki'lerimiz |
| sizin (your) | Helsinki'niz | Helsinkileriniz / Helsinki'leriniz |
| onların (their) | Helsinki'si / Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
Derived terms
Võro
Proper noun
Helsinki (genitive Helsinki, partitive Helsinkit)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.