cancan (plural cancans)
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cancan (third-person singular simple present cancans, present participle cancanning, simple past and past participle cancanned)
cancan m (plural cancans)
cancan
Inflection of cancan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | cancan | cancanit | |
genitive | cancanin | cancanien | |
partitive | cancania | cancaneja | |
illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | cancan | cancanit | |
accusative | nom. | cancan | cancanit |
gen. | cancanin | ||
genitive | cancanin | cancanien | |
partitive | cancania | cancaneja | |
inessive | cancanissa | cancaneissa | |
elative | cancanista | cancaneista | |
illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | |
adessive | cancanilla | cancaneilla | |
ablative | cancanilta | cancaneilta | |
allative | cancanille | cancaneille | |
essive | cancanina | cancaneina | |
translative | cancaniksi | cancaneiksi | |
abessive | cancanitta | cancaneitta | |
instructive | — | cancanein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".[1]
cancan m (plural cancans)
cancan n (plural cancanuri)
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cancan | cancanul | (niște) cancanuri | cancanurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) cancan | cancanului | (unor) cancanuri | cancanurilor |
vocative | cancanule | cancanurilor |
cancan c
Declension of cancan | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | cancan | cancanen | — | — |
Genitive | cancans | cancanens | — | — |