promille
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧mil‧le
Noun
promille n (uncountable)
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish promille, from German Promille, from Latin per mille.
Pronunciation
Noun
promille
- per mille, permille, per mil, per mill, (one) thousandth (1/1000th part of something)
Usage notes
- In English, the equivalents of this term are rarely used, even so that many dictionaries do not list them at all.
- A quite common use for promille in Finnish is to refer to blood alcohol content (BAC), e.g. 1 ‰ (promille(a)), equal to 0.1% (e.g. US) or 100 mg% (e.g. UK).
- kolmen promillen humala ― intoxication/drunkenness at a level of 3 ‰ (e.g. US: 0.3 BAC, e.g. UK: 300 mg%)
Declension
| Inflection of promille (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | promille | promillet | |
| genitive | promillen | promillejen | |
| partitive | promillea | promilleja | |
| illative | promilleen | promilleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | promille | promillet | |
| accusative | nom. | promille | promillet |
| gen. | promillen | ||
| genitive | promillen | promillejen promillein rare | |
| partitive | promillea | promilleja | |
| inessive | promillessa | promilleissa | |
| elative | promillesta | promilleista | |
| illative | promilleen | promilleihin | |
| adessive | promillella | promilleilla | |
| ablative | promillelta | promilleilta | |
| allative | promillelle | promilleille | |
| essive | promillena | promilleina | |
| translative | promilleksi | promilleiksi | |
| abessive | promilletta | promilleitta | |
| instructive | — | promillein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
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Further reading
- “promille”, 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
Swedish
Noun
promille c
- permille (per thousand)
Declension
Declension of promille