haamumaili
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Finnish
Etymology
haamu (“ghost”) + maili (“mile”)
Pronunciation
Noun
haamumaili
- four-minute mile (instance of running the distance of one mile in under four minutes, an achievement once regarded as impossible)
Declension
| Inflection of haamumaili (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | haamumaili | haamumailit | |
| genitive | haamumailin | haamumailien | |
| partitive | haamumailia | haamumaileja | |
| illative | haamumailiin | haamumaileihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | haamumaili | haamumailit | |
| accusative | nom. | haamumaili | haamumailit |
| gen. | haamumailin | ||
| genitive | haamumailin | haamumailien | |
| partitive | haamumailia | haamumaileja | |
| inessive | haamumailissa | haamumaileissa | |
| elative | haamumailista | haamumaileista | |
| illative | haamumailiin | haamumaileihin | |
| adessive | haamumaililla | haamumaileilla | |
| ablative | haamumaililta | haamumaileilta | |
| allative | haamumailille | haamumaileille | |
| essive | haamumailina | haamumaileina | |
| translative | haamumailiksi | haamumaileiksi | |
| abessive | haamumailitta | haamumaileitta | |
| instructive | — | haamumailein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Related terms
Further reading
- “haamumaili”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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