sportteli
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Finnish
Etymology
< Swedish sportel < German Sportel < Latin sportula (“little basket, gift”) < diminutive of sporta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sportteli (archaic)
- A payment made to a public officer on the basis of performing an official duty such as confirming a trade, legalizing a document, issuing a decision etc.; the whole judicial system used to be financed by these payments.
Declension
| Inflection of sportteli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sportteli | sporttelit | |
| genitive | sporttelin | sporttelien sportteleiden sportteleitten | |
| partitive | sporttelia | sportteleita sportteleja | |
| illative | sportteliin | sportteleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sportteli | sporttelit | |
| accusative | nom. | sportteli | sporttelit |
| gen. | sporttelin | ||
| genitive | sporttelin | sporttelien sportteleiden sportteleitten | |
| partitive | sporttelia | sportteleita sportteleja | |
| inessive | sporttelissa | sportteleissa | |
| elative | sporttelista | sportteleista | |
| illative | sportteliin | sportteleihin | |
| adessive | sporttelilla | sportteleilla | |
| ablative | sporttelilta | sportteleilta | |
| allative | sporttelille | sportteleille | |
| essive | sporttelina | sportteleina | |
| translative | sportteliksi | sportteleiksi | |
| abessive | sporttelitta | sportteleitta | |
| instructive | — | sporttelein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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See also
Further reading
- “sportteli”, 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