taksvärkki
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish dagsverke (“day's work”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑksʋærkːi/,
- Rhymes: -ɑksʋærkːi
- Hyphenation(key): taks‧värk‧ki
Noun
taksvärkki
- (historical) day's work (full working day that a tenant farmer had to work for a landlord instead or in addition to a cash rent)
- A quantity of work contributed to the Operation Day's Work movement, usually shorter than a full working day.
- (by extension, informal) free work (work done without compensation)
Declension
| Inflection of taksvärkki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | taksvärkki | taksvärkit | |
| genitive | taksvärkin | taksvärkkien | |
| partitive | taksvärkkiä | taksvärkkejä | |
| illative | taksvärkkiin | taksvärkkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | taksvärkki | taksvärkit | |
| accusative | nom. | taksvärkki | taksvärkit |
| gen. | taksvärkin | ||
| genitive | taksvärkin | taksvärkkien | |
| partitive | taksvärkkiä | taksvärkkejä | |
| inessive | taksvärkissä | taksvärkeissä | |
| elative | taksvärkistä | taksvärkeistä | |
| illative | taksvärkkiin | taksvärkkeihin | |
| adessive | taksvärkillä | taksvärkeillä | |
| ablative | taksvärkiltä | taksvärkeiltä | |
| allative | taksvärkille | taksvärkeille | |
| essive | taksvärkkinä | taksvärkkeinä | |
| translative | taksvärkiksi | taksvärkeiksi | |
| abessive | taksvärkittä | taksvärkeittä | |
| instructive | — | taksvärkein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- (unit of rent): taksvärkkipäivä
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Further reading
- “taksvärkki”, 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