ostos

ostaa (“to buy, purchase”) +‎ -os. Coined by Finnish author and journalist Pietari Hannikainen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈostos/,
• Rhymes: -ostos
• Hyphenation^(key): os‧tos

ostos

1. purchase (item bought)
2. (in the plural) shopping (things bought)

   Kannoin kolme kassia ostoksia portaita ylös.

   I carried three bags of shopping up the stairs.

3. (in plural external locative cases) shopping (the event of specifically going out for shopping)

   Missä käyt ostoksilla?

   Where do you do your shopping?

   Tulin juuri kotiin ostoksilta.

   I just came home from shopping.

   Hän lähti Marjan kanssa ostoksille.

   She went shopping with Mary.

• hankinta (used of large, durable and/or expensive purchases)

• “ostos”, 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 2023-07-03

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ostos (genitive ostoksen, partitive ostostu)

1. purchase

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoːsːtos/

ōstos

1. third-person singular imperative of oastit