karies
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Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin caries.
Pronunciation
Noun
karies
- caries (dental disease)
Declension
| Inflection of karies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | karies | kariekset | |
| genitive | karieksen | kariesten karieksien | |
| partitive | kariesta | karieksia | |
| illative | kariekseen | karieksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | karies | kariekset | |
| accusative | nom. | karies | kariekset |
| gen. | karieksen | ||
| genitive | karieksen | kariesten karieksien | |
| partitive | kariesta | karieksia | |
| inessive | karieksessa | karieksissa | |
| elative | karieksesta | karieksista | |
| illative | kariekseen | karieksiin | |
| adessive | karieksella | karieksilla | |
| ablative | kariekselta | karieksilta | |
| allative | kariekselle | karieksille | |
| essive | karieksena | karieksina | |
| translative | kariekseksi | karieksiksi | |
| abessive | karieksetta | karieksitta | |
| instructive | — | karieksin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- hammaskaries
- hammasmätä (dated)
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “karies”, 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
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
karies m (definite singular kariesen, uncountable)
- caries (tooth decay)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
karies m (definite singular kariesen, uncountable)
- caries (tooth decay)
References
- “karies” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.