supermarket
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the interior of a supermarket (a large store)
supermarketi interjöör
See also: süpermarket
English
Etymology
American English, super- + market, 1933.[1]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsuːpəˈmɑːkɪt/
Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
supermarket (plural supermarkets)
- A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.
- Coordinate terms: hypermarket, superstore
- I went to the supermarket to buy some food.
- A chain of such stores.
- (figurative) A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.
- 2011, Faith Glasgow, Personal Finance and Investing All-in-One For Dummies:
- If you know what you want by filtering down the 1,600 or so trusts to a short list and then studying the information on each via online sources, then you can buy your trust and get all or nearly all of the commission back into your bank account via an Internet investment supermarket. Here, you select your fund, decide whether you want it as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), and pay for it with a credit card.
- 2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Almina grew up in the age of the internet and the infinite supermarket of pornography it provides.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: սուպերմարկետ (supermarket)
- → Bulgarian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
- → Czech: supermarket
- → Estonian: supermarket
- → Finnish: supermarket, supermarketti
- → Hindi: सुपरमार्केट (suparmārkeṭ)
- → Georgian: სუპერმარკეტი (suṗermarḳeṭi)
- → Italian: supermarket
- → Japanese: スーパーマーケット (sūpāmāketto)
- → Korean: 슈퍼마켓 (syupeomaket)
- → Macedonian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
- → Mongolian:
- Cyrillic script: супермаркет (supermarket)
- Mongolian script: ᠰᠦᠫᠧᠷᠮᠠᠷᠻᠧᠲ᠋ (süpērmarkēt)
- → Polish: supermarket
- → Romanian: supermarket
- → Russian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
- → Kazakh: супермаркет (supermarket)
- → Kyrgyz: супермаркет (supermarket)
- → Tajik: супермаркет (supermarket)
- → Turkmen: supermarket
- → Uzbek: supermarket
- → Thai: ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ต (suu-bpə̂ə-maa-gêt)
- → Turkish: süpermarket
- → Urdu: سُپَر مارْکیٹ (supar mārkeṭ)
Translations
store
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chain of stores
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “supermarket”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
supermarket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English supermarket.
Pronunciation
Noun
supermarket m inan
Declension
Declension of supermarket (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | supermarket | supermarkety |
| genitive | supermarketu | supermarketů |
| dative | supermarketu | supermarketům |
| accusative | supermarket | supermarkety |
| vocative | supermarkete | supermarkety |
| locative | supermarketu | supermarketech |
| instrumental | supermarketem | supermarkety |
See also
Further reading
- “supermarket”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- supermarket in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Estonian
Etymology
From English supermarket.
Pronunciation
Noun
supermarket (genitive supermarketi, partitive supermarketit)
- supermarket (a large store offering food and industrial goods)
Declension
| Declension of supermarket (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | supermarket | supermarketid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | supermarketi | ||
| genitive | supermarketite | ||
| partitive | supermarketit | supermarketeid | |
| illative | supermarketisse | supermarketitesse supermarketeisse | |
| inessive | supermarketis | supermarketites supermarketeis | |
| elative | supermarketist | supermarketitest supermarketeist | |
| allative | supermarketile | supermarketitele supermarketeile | |
| adessive | supermarketil | supermarketitel supermarketeil | |
| ablative | supermarketilt | supermarketitelt supermarketeilt | |
| translative | supermarketiks | supermarketiteks supermarketeiks | |
| terminative | supermarketini | supermarketiteni | |
| essive | supermarketina | supermarketitena | |
| abessive | supermarketita | supermarketiteta | |
| comitative | supermarketiga | supermarketitega | |
References
- supermarket in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “supermarket”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English supermarket.
Pronunciation
Noun
supermarket
- Alternative form of supermarketti.
Declension
| Inflection of supermarket (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | supermarket | supermarketit | |
| genitive | supermarketin | supermarketien | |
| partitive | supermarketia | supermarketeja | |
| illative | supermarketiin | supermarketeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | supermarket | supermarketit | |
| accusative | nom. | supermarket | supermarketit |
| gen. | supermarketin | ||
| genitive | supermarketin | supermarketien | |
| partitive | supermarketia | supermarketeja | |
| inessive | supermarketissa | supermarketeissa | |
| elative | supermarketista | supermarketeista | |
| illative | supermarketiin | supermarketeihin | |
| adessive | supermarketilla | supermarketeilla | |
| ablative | supermarketilta | supermarketeilta | |
| allative | supermarketille | supermarketeille | |
| essive | supermarketina | supermarketeina | |
| translative | supermarketiksi | supermarketeiksi | |
| abessive | supermarketitta | supermarketeitta | |
| instructive | — | supermarketein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
- “supermarket”, 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
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English supermarket.
Pronunciation
Noun
supermarket m (invariable)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English supermarket.
Pronunciation
Noun
supermarket m inan
Declension
Declension of supermarket
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | supermarket | supermarkety |
| genitive | supermarketu | supermarketów |
| dative | supermarketowi | supermarketom |
| accusative | supermarket | supermarkety |
| instrumental | supermarketem | supermarketami |
| locative | supermarkecie | supermarketach |
| vocative | supermarkecie | supermarkety |
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- supermarket in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- supermarket in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English supermarket.
Noun
supermarket n (plural supermarketuri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | supermarket | supermarketul | supermarketuri | supermarketurile | |
| genitive-dative | supermarket | supermarketului | supermarketuri | supermarketurilor | |
| vocative | supermarketule | supermarketurilor | |||