jääkäriupseeri
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Finnish
Etymology
jääkäri (“jaeger”) + upseeri (“officer”)
Pronunciation
Noun
jääkäriupseeri
- An officer in the Finnish armed forces, who has also served in 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.
Declension
Further reading
- “jääkäriupseeri”, 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