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Finnish
Etymology
The adessive plural of puoli (puolilla) with a possessive suffix.
Pronunciation
Adverb
puolillaan
- half full, half empty (neutral descriptor of something holding about half of its total capacity)
Inflection
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allative
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puolilleen
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adessive
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puolillaan
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ablative
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Trivia
- puolillaan is a neutral descriptor and doesn't take a stance on whether something is half full or half empty. As a consequence, the idiom Is the glass half empty or half full? doesn't work as well in Finnish.
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