jääkäripataljoona
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Finnish
Etymology
jääkäri (“jaeger, rifleman”) + pataljoona (“battalion”)
Pronunciation
Noun
jääkäripataljoona
- (historical) jaeger battalion (the 27th Jaeger Battalion of the German Army in WWI, consisting of Finnish volunteers who had secretly travelled to Germany in order to obtain military training, with the final aim of liberating Finland from the Russian rule)
- (military) jaeger battalion (a rifleman battalion in the Finnish army)
Declension
Synonyms
- (battalion in the German Army): jääkäripataljoona 27 (kaksikymmentäseitsemän)
Further reading
- “jääkäripataljoona”, 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