Kolkata
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See also: kolkata
English
Etymology
From Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata); further etymology disputed. More on the Wikipedia page.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kolkata
- The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta.
Synonyms
- Calcutta (officially deprecated)
Translations
city — see also Calcutta
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Kolkata.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kolkata
- Kolkata (the capital city of West Bengal, India)
Usage notes
The former Finnish name Kalkutta is still widely used and is considered acceptable in Finnish.
Declension
| Inflection of Kolkata (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Kolkata | — | |
| genitive | Kolkatan | — | |
| partitive | Kolkataa | — | |
| illative | Kolkataan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kolkata | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Kolkata | — |
| gen. | Kolkatan | ||
| genitive | Kolkatan | — | |
| partitive | Kolkataa | — | |
| inessive | Kolkatassa | — | |
| elative | Kolkatasta | — | |
| illative | Kolkataan | — | |
| adessive | Kolkatalla | — | |
| ablative | Kolkatalta | — | |
| allative | Kolkatalle | — | |
| essive | Kolkatana | — | |
| translative | Kolkataksi | — | |
| abessive | Kolkatatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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