hengitystie
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Finnish
Etymology
Compound of hengitys (“breath, respiration”) + tie (“way, passage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hengitystie
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) respiratory tract (passages through which air enters and leaves the body, including the nose and nasal passages, the pharynx, larynx, trachea, lungs, bronchi and alveoli)
Declension
| Inflection of hengitystie (Kotus type 19/suo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hengitystie | hengitystiet | |
| genitive | hengitystien | hengitysteiden hengitysteitten | |
| partitive | hengitystietä | hengitysteitä | |
| illative | hengitystiehen | hengitysteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hengitystie | hengitystiet | |
| accusative | nom. | hengitystie | hengitystiet |
| gen. | hengitystien | ||
| genitive | hengitystien | hengitysteiden hengitysteitten | |
| partitive | hengitystietä | hengitysteitä | |
| inessive | hengitystiessä | hengitysteissä | |
| elative | hengitystiestä | hengitysteistä | |
| illative | hengitystiehen | hengitysteihin | |
| adessive | hengitystiellä | hengitysteillä | |
| ablative | hengitystieltä | hengitysteiltä | |
| allative | hengitystielle | hengitysteille | |
| essive | hengitystienä | hengitysteinä | |
| translative | hengitystieksi | hengitysteiksi | |
| abessive | hengitystiettä | hengitysteittä | |
| instructive | — | hengitystein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Further reading
- “hengitystie”, 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