yhdyssana
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Finnish
Etymology
yhdys- (“connected, combined, united”) + sana (“word”). Coined by Finnish folklorist and linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853.
Pronunciation
Noun
yhdyssana
- (grammar) compound word, compound, often: compound noun
Usage notes
- In Finnish spelling, all compounds are spelled as closed compounds or hyphenated compounds, so the term yhdyssana is often erroneously used to only refer to closed or hyphenated compounds in English, and the term sanaliitto (whose correct meaning is phrase, set phrase, or fixed phrase) is often erroneously used to refer to English open compounds.
- In Finnish spelling, compounds will be hyphenated under certain conditions (see the rules described here).
Declension
| Inflection of yhdyssana (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | yhdyssana | yhdyssanat | ||
| genitive | yhdyssanan | yhdyssanojen | ||
| partitive | yhdyssanaa | yhdyssanoja | ||
| illative | yhdyssanaan | yhdyssanoihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | yhdyssana | yhdyssanat | ||
| accusative | nom. | yhdyssana | yhdyssanat | |
| gen. | yhdyssanan | |||
| genitive | yhdyssanan | yhdyssanojen yhdyssanainrare | ||
| partitive | yhdyssanaa | yhdyssanoja | ||
| inessive | yhdyssanassa | yhdyssanoissa | ||
| elative | yhdyssanasta | yhdyssanoista | ||
| illative | yhdyssanaan | yhdyssanoihin | ||
| adessive | yhdyssanalla | yhdyssanoilla | ||
| ablative | yhdyssanalta | yhdyssanoilta | ||
| allative | yhdyssanalle | yhdyssanoille | ||
| essive | yhdyssanana | yhdyssanoina | ||
| translative | yhdyssanaksi | yhdyssanoiksi | ||
| abessive | yhdyssanatta | yhdyssanoitta | ||
| instructive | — | yhdyssanoin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Further reading
- “yhdyssana”, 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 2023-07-04