Åbo
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "abo"
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Åbo
- Synonym of Turku
Translations
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish Åbo, the Swedish name for Turku; this is because the Swedish-language university of Turku (Åbo Akademi University) was originally east of the river and the Finnish-language university (University of Turku) on the other side.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Åbo (colloquial)
- (Turku) The "old" side of Turku located east/south of the River Aura.
- Åbo on täl pual jokke ja Turku tois pual jokke.
- [Åbo on tällä puolen jokea ja Turku toisella puolen jokea.]
- Åbo is 'on this side of the river' and Turku 'on the other side of the river'.
Declension
| Inflection of Åbo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Åbo | — | |
| genitive | Åbon | — | |
| partitive | Åboa | — | |
| illative | Åboon | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Åbo | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Åbo | — |
| gen. | Åbon | ||
| genitive | Åbon | — | |
| partitive | Åboa | — | |
| inessive | Åbossa | — | |
| elative | Åbosta | — | |
| illative | Åboon | — | |
| adessive | Åbolla | — | |
| ablative | Åbolta | — | |
| allative | Åbolle | — | |
| essive | Åbona | — | |
| translative | Åboksi | — | |
| abessive | Åbotta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Probably from Swedish Åbo, Swedish is a minority language there.
Proper noun
Åbo
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Proper noun
Åbo
Swedish
Etymology
å (“river”) + bo (“dwelling”)
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Åbo n (genitive Åbos)