lastenleikki

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Finnish

Etymology

lasten (of children) +‎ leikki (play)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑstenˌlei̯kːi/,
  • Rhymes: -eikːi
  • Syllabification(key): las‧ten‧leik‧ki
  • Hyphenation(key): lasten‧leikki

Noun

lastenleikki

  1. child's play, cinch, breeze (something particularly simple or easy)
    Edelliseen työhöni verrattuna tämä on lastenleikkiä.
    Compared with my last job, this is child's play.
    Latinan opiskelun jälkeen espanja oli lastenleikkiä.
    After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.

Usage notes

  • When written separately as lasten leikki, signifies "child's play" in unidiomatic sense: a play that children play.
  • Rarely used in cases other than partitive singular.

Declension

Inflection of lastenleikki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation)
nominative lastenleikki lastenleikit
genitive lastenleikin lastenleikkien
partitive lastenleikkiä lastenleikkejä
illative lastenleikkiin lastenleikkeihin
singular plural
nominative lastenleikki lastenleikit
accusative nom. lastenleikki lastenleikit
gen. lastenleikin
genitive lastenleikin lastenleikkien
partitive lastenleikkiä lastenleikkejä
inessive lastenleikissä lastenleikeissä
elative lastenleikistä lastenleikeistä
illative lastenleikkiin lastenleikkeihin
adessive lastenleikillä lastenleikeillä
ablative lastenleikiltä lastenleikeiltä
allative lastenleikille lastenleikeille
essive lastenleikkinä lastenleikkeinä
translative lastenleikiksi lastenleikeiksi
abessive lastenleikittä lastenleikeittä
instructive lastenleikein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of lastenleikki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation)

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